Florida cop’s actions bring family to tears

Adan Salazar

Infowars.com

October 23, 2013

Nearly everyday we’re subjected to police corruption horror stories that try us to the very fabrics of our souls, so much so that a positive story – one in which an officer actually serves the public – is a welcomed sight.

Our latest hero cop tale takes us to Miami-Dade, Florida, where Officer Vicki Thomas was summoned to a local grocery store to deal with a shoplifter who had attempted to abscond with $300 worth of food.

It’s no stretch to say, for as much as Jessica Robles was trying to make off with, most officers wouldn’t have thought twice about locking her up to teach her a lesson.

But in a shocking demonstration of goodwill, Officer Thomas opted for a more humanitarian approach.



Link to ABC News version of story on YouTube

“She asked, ‘Do you even have food at the house?’” Robles told Miami’s Fox affiliate WSVN. “And I looked at her in her face, and I told her, ‘Not at all.’”

Robles, like many Americans, is having a rough time. No job, no money and three kids make it all the more difficult to keep the fridge stocked in an economy where food prices just keep going up.

Out of desperation, she headed to her neighborhood Publix store with a coupon for a five-finger discount, an illustration of what we may see others resort to when food stamp benefits are scaled back come November.

“I asked her, ‘Why would you do that? What would make you do that?’” Officer Thomas recalled. “She said, ‘My kids were hungry.’”

Officer Thomas said the moment she learned it was done in an earnest attempt to put food on the table, she had no problem springing for $100 worth of groceries.

“I made the decision to buy her some groceries, because arresting her wasn’t gonna solve the problem with her children being hungry,” Thomas reasoned. “So I went and bought her some groceries.”

Even though Officer Thomas still cited Robles, she resolved not to jail her as her record showed she wasn’t a habitual shoplifter, nor did she have any outstanding criminal violations.

“The only thing I asked of her was when she gets on her feet that she help someone else out, and she said she would,” Thomas said.

After citing Robles, Officer Thomas followed up the unprecedented display of compassion with a ride home. “I’m a full-service cop,” Thomas told ABC News.

Although hero cop stories seem few and far between, it is our duty to balance the negative police state news – of which there is no shortage – with examples of what a model officer should strive to be, and to show that not all cops are like the SWAT officer who allegedly stole 3 pairs of shoes, including a pair of Air Jordans, several thousand dollars and a “Grand Theft Auto” video game from a house he was raiding, as we reported yesterday.

In the past year, we’ve shone the spotlight on several exemplary officers who went above and beyond the call of duty, such as one who gave money to a homeless person, another cop that presented a homeless, shoeless man with boots, and a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer who, instead of slapping a loud band playing in the woods with a fine, actually got down on Deep Purple’s “Smoke on the Water” and rocked a solid drum beat.

Last year, we also reported on Deputy Sheriff Stan Lenic, the cop who defied TSA orders to arrest activists participating in Infowars’ Opt Out and Film campaign, acknowledging that it was their First Amendment right to protest and hand out flyers outside of airport terminals.

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