When a Phoenix, Arizona, cop responded to a call that a homeless man was annoying customers at a gas station back in 2016, what he did about it was caught on camera when a bystander starting taking video.
Don’t expect the video to be promoted in the mainstream media, though, because it captures a police officer doing something that doesn’t serve to advance any liberal political agenda. When Officer Mark Valenzuela saw that the homeless man had walked his feet raw, wearing no shoes, he took immediate action.
Valenzuela was pretty sure that the new shoes he just happened to have in his car would fit the man, and they did.
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“He was just very thankful. I could see a little bit of money in his pocket, he had some dollar bills and some change. He wanted to pay me for the shoes and I just told him they were a gift from God,” said the police officer, after kneeling in front of the homeless man to fit him into the new shoes.
While the mainstream media focus on promoting a handful of videos where police are seen responding to criminals, most often showing the officers in a once-in-a-lifetime situation of being forced to choose whether to shoot their weapons, missing from the national spotlight are videos like these.
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Most often, police take the role of public servant, confronting issues that society has left others to deal with. This video captures a moment that is far more familiar to most police than the scene of a shooting.
H/T Mad World News
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