last week so that she could eat. $2.47 I believe was the grand total. good on this cop for having a heart.

Doubt this thread thread will get much traction, no fun if you can not bash Florida or the south.

I think we're all capable of celebrating bright spots, wherever they occur.

I can't pretend there is no regional prejudice around here, but I think there is a growing awareness that it's not cool.

I'm glad at least one police officer is able to make the news for doing the right thing, though not sure giving money to a hungry person can make up for the beatings, killings, and rampant political corruption over the years that gives Florida authorities a bad rep around here.

get up move to one of the other 49 Utopian states where everyone lives on sugar mountain.

...versus those too poor to have many alternatives.

in such situations. Tie them in with store owners with excess / expired goods and food banks.

No one should be starving in this country (nor any others, but here we have so much food).

No one should need to steal food. But, since many do, they should be given leniency and assistance as much as possible. It's not justice to treat them the same as just other thug.

and popular with cops who are not interested in punishing those down on their luck.

removing corn from the dumpster. I know a man who is head of security for Bottom Dollar who told me this story & who did the firing. Even though the corn was disposed of by Bottom Dollar, they viewed his act as theft. He tried to explain that he was taking it home to his family because he didn't have enough money to buy fresh produce. His pay rate minimum wage.

Discretion, discretion, people just don't get it.

it never (rarely) seems to be exercised with people of color or the poor.

The only discretion available here was releasing on a summons rather than taking to jail.

Made me think of the women in the Senate. Twenty of them. Mostly Dems. But they ALL get together every month for dinner hosted by their senior member Barbara Mikulski (D-MD). They stay in communication even when the men are out waving their dicks around and making spectacles of themselves. One in particular whose nickname goes with the word "Carnival."

Everybody... whoever you are, wherever you are, keep paying it forward!

but corporate billionaires can afford to buy politicians.

This cop is here to protect and serve. Exactly what her neighborhood needs. More cops like this.

I'm sure some asshole cop will more than make up for it.