| There’s what the system does, and what people can do to make it right, one for another. Bless those policemen for having the heart to be that kind of people. |
When police approached her to assess her situation, the woman simply told the cops she was hungry.
"I asked her, ’What’s going on?’ She told me she was hungry," said Lt. Louis Sojo. "So, I looked in her bag. I decided‐ we decided‐ to say ’We’ll pay for her food.'"
The police decided that instead of arresting her, they would cover her the $35 tab of groceries and send the woman on her way without being charged.
"When you look at someone’s face and you notice that they need you, they’re actually hungry, it’s pretty difficult as a human being to walk away from something like that‐ we weren’t raised like that, it’s the right thing to do," Sojo said.
The three cops’ actions did not go unnoticed. The man who initially captured the image, film and TV director Paul Bozymowkski, was in the store tweeting about the Thursday afternoon incident showing the woman in tears after officers paid for her food.