In Tampa, Police deliver boxed lunches to Protestors [View all]

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TAMPA — It was a truce of sorts, delivered between two slices of bread.

Food: from Tampa police officers to hungry protesters camping out at Romneyville, the unofficial headquarters of the many activists who gathered to protest the Republican National Convention this week.

"I give them the most props of any police agency we've seen," said 28-year-old Brendan Hunt of Occupy Wall Street.

The boxed lunches — sandwiches, fruit and ice cold bottled water — came after police heard that protesters were getting low on provisions. It didn't help that the big blue school bus-turned-kitchen that had been parked at Romneyville all week left for New Orleans this morning, to help hungry people there.

So, in their telltale khaki, the Tampa officers who have had several tense moments with protesters during the week showed up to help.

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