officer pulls over and gives his shiny boots to a homeless man

[Liberal_in_LA]

Image of Indianapolis police officer giving homeless man boots captured by Pacers star

An Indianapolis police officer's act of kindness has gone viral.

The unnamed officer was photographed Monday as he pulled over to the side of the road and gave his boots to a homeless man, WRTV reports.

The touching moment was posted to Instagram by Indiana Pacers star Roy Hibbert and then shared around the Internet by his more than 180,000 followers.

"Just seen an Indy police officer pull over, go into his trunk n [sic] give a homeless guy a pair of shiny boots," wrote the center.http://www.aol.com/article/2014/09/09/image-of-indianapolis-police-officer-giving-homeless-man-boots-pacers-roy-hibbert-instagram/20959828/?icid=maing-grid7|maing14|dl13|sec1_lnk2%26pLid%3D527073&hpt=hp_bn8

[snooper2]

1. For a second I was wondering what a cop was doing with books

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. corrected

[snooper2]

6. NOOOOO now my reply won't make sense

ON THE INTERTUBES FOREVER!

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. lol

[Cleita]

4. Yes. Shiny books, no less. I didn't know what a shiny book was.

[daleanime]

22. All books are shiny....

[Enrique]

15. they throw them at people

or so I hear on cop shows.

[FailureToCommunicate]

23. "Book 'em...

[Rex]

2. Thanks for the post, what a kind man.

I wish all cops had that sense of goodwill toward their fellow human.

[el_bryanto]

8. So basically all cops should quit or they implicitly support systemic civil rights abuses?

What a sensible and practical solution.

Bryant

[Taitertots]

11. No, they could just stop supporting police criminality

[ColesCountyDem]

21. Believe it or not, not all officers support 'police criminality'.

On July 7th, 2013, a newly-hired village police officer beat a handcuffed man until he lost consciousness. The officer was arrested by our sheriff less than one hour later. The man subsequently died from his injuries on July 11, 2013, and the officer was then indicted for involuntary manslaughter, aggravated battery and official misconduct. He remains jailed without bond, and is awaiting trial.

Overly-broad generalizations are not helpful, and most often are untrue, as well.

[el_bryanto]

27. And what is your evidence that this gentleman supports police criminality? nt

[pipoman]

16. Only white cops....

[el_bryanto]

28. That's interesting - so black cops are innocent of criminality and white cops are guilty of it?

Is that an across the board statement?

Bryant

[pipoman]

29. Just repeating a rumor I've been hearing. ..

[busterbrown]

9. Exactly..Atones for all his previous and future thoughts concerning “them”..

That being said I could be entirely fucking wrong about this guy.. Could be a Knight among criminals, 1 in 500...but for the most part cops have exceeded their “thank you for your service card”...

[951-Riverside]

18. Yes. That is the point of these articles.

Every single time a cop is caught beating the shit out of someone or shooting an unarmed person, the police unions will frantically search for a homeless person to give shoes to and of course photograph it *cough*

WTF is up with the shoe thing anyway?

Its either that or giving a homeless person really shitty fast food (usually McDonalds) and photographing it like that did in Albuquerque after the James Boyd murder.

[zonkers]

20. They are actually shoe-phones.

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[cwydro]

24. Bullshit.

I have a close friend who is a cop.

She doesn't advertise the good things she does.

But she does them daily.

Who are you planning to call when trouble comes your way? Bet you call the cops.

[Oktober]

32. How utterly tedious....

[Cleita]

7. I like stories about the nice things people do for others.

Thanks for the story, shiny books and all.

[LibDemAlways]

12. I'm so cynical that before I read the details I

was sure this was about a cop kicking the crap out of a homeless man with his boots. Sorry to say that's more common than this act of kindness. Wish it wasn't.

[pipoman]

19. Nonsense

You hear about one, the other goes unnoticed.

[Skittles]

33. how do you know that's more common?

considering that acts of kindness are typically not reported

[LibDemAlways]

34. I would hope that acts of kindness by police officers

on behalf of those they serve would be brought to public attention, if, indeed, such acts are going unreported. It woud be a good PR move given all of the negative press of late.

[cwydro]

13. Thanks for this

So tired of the "cops are thugs" meme.

[ncjustice80]

35. Well they should stop being thugs then.

[tazkcmo]

14. Nice change of pace

More of this and less shooting please!

[lpbk2713]

17. I'll bet someone in the priveleged class reported the officer.

For giving the man with the sign a free pass for panhandling and obstructing traffic.

Let no good deed go unpunished.

[eggplant]

25. OFFS.

Is it too much to ask that when someone posts something like this to simply say "Hey, that was nice" and not try to infer what the cop's motives were?

The guy did a nice thing. For that one brief moment, some good happened in our world. Just enjoy it, FFS. We have enough threads about whether all cops are thugs or not.

[840high]

26. +100

[Liberal_in_LA]

30. Thank you.

[Uncle Joe]

31. This was a good thing to do, making ripples in the pond.

Kudos to the police officer.

Thanks for the thread, Liberal_in_LA.