When one Maryland cop responded to a call about a shoplifter at a local grocery store, he thought it would be a pretty straightforward case.
However, when Officer Bennett Johns from the Laurel Police Department got to the scene and saw what the young woman tried to steal, he realized there was more to do that just enforce the law. “Officers responded for a shoplifting call at a grocery store and learned that a young mother, with her infant son, was caught by security attempting to steal two packs of diapers,” Laurel Police Department wrote in a post on Facebook.
“After she purchased some groceries she did not have enough money leftover to buy the diapers,” they explained. Officer Johns issued the young mother a criminal citation, but before he left, he decided there was another thing he wanted to give her.
“Officer Johns considered the situation and then made the decision to purchase the diapers out of his own pocket so that the young child would not suffer,” the department wrote. “Though it’s but a snapshot of some of the work your officers are doing daily, we still wanted to take a moment to thank Officer Johns for not just fairly enforcing the law, but also showing empathy to an innocent child put in a difficult situation.”
“I think it speaks volumes that they are doing the right thing for the right reason when nobody is watching,” Laurel police Chief Richard McLaughlin said.
Watch the entire video below to see what this officer did when realized what one woman tried to shoplift.
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[Featured image: Facebook/Laurel Police Department]
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