Goofy
04-25-2016, 05:54 PM
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This cop proved the police are not always out to catch people ‘riding dirty’.
Instead, he extended a random act of kindness that left one father completely overwhelmed.
LaVonte Dell, from Michigan, had been driving in Westland on Monday afternoon when he suddenly saw red and blue lights behind him.
http://i.imgur.com/ZmZgKId.jpg
The 28-year-old was sure he was going to be stopped and handed a hefty ticket for his car’s tinted windows and for not seating his 3-year-old daughter in a car seat.
And sure enough, the officer pulled him over, as predicted.
But what happened next completely surprised him.
‘Yesterday I was pulled over in Westland for my window tint. This stop was nothin like I thought it would be.
He got my s—t and was walking back to the car and seen my daughter wasn’t in a car seat.
So he asked me to get out and speak with him.
He asked why didn’t she have one and I told him all I been thru this year like I barely making it because of these garnishments and I really don’t like asking people for (stuff).
Do you know this white police officer told me to follow him to Walmart on Ford road and he purchased my daughter a car seat with his own money.
If you would have seen us in Walmart u would have thought we were best friends.
It was like night and day.
U got me hella tats walkin side by side with a white officer Westland at that.
I’ve been calling all day trying to get his name because I was so in shock.
I didn’t even look at his name tag.
Never judge a book by it’s cover it’s most def is some good guys left.
I told him I never met a officer like u.
He said I’m just doing my job what good would giving u a ticket do besides putting u further in the hole making it harder on you to come up.’
LaVonte told ABC News: ‘He asked me to step out of my vehicle to talk to him, and I was just so scared thinking this couldn’t be good.’
Yet rather than handing him a ticket, the cop, who he later found out was Officer Joshua Scaglione, took time to listen to his story.
Scaglione then decided he would buy a car seat for LaVonte’s daughter there and then.
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LaVonte said: ‘He purchased one for me, and it was pink, which is my daughter’s favourite colour. It has butterflies and she loves it.’
The 28-year-old dad was reunited with the officer on Wednesday after a Facebook post about the incident went viral.
He hopes his experience will tell people to ‘never judge a book by its cover’.
Scaglione says he was just doing his job, adding: ‘You know a ticket doesn’t help all the time.’
This cop proved the police are not always out to catch people ‘riding dirty’.
Instead, he extended a random act of kindness that left one father completely overwhelmed.
LaVonte Dell, from Michigan, had been driving in Westland on Monday afternoon when he suddenly saw red and blue lights behind him.
http://i.imgur.com/ZmZgKId.jpg
The 28-year-old was sure he was going to be stopped and handed a hefty ticket for his car’s tinted windows and for not seating his 3-year-old daughter in a car seat.
And sure enough, the officer pulled him over, as predicted.
But what happened next completely surprised him.
‘Yesterday I was pulled over in Westland for my window tint. This stop was nothin like I thought it would be.
He got my s—t and was walking back to the car and seen my daughter wasn’t in a car seat.
So he asked me to get out and speak with him.
He asked why didn’t she have one and I told him all I been thru this year like I barely making it because of these garnishments and I really don’t like asking people for (stuff).
Do you know this white police officer told me to follow him to Walmart on Ford road and he purchased my daughter a car seat with his own money.
If you would have seen us in Walmart u would have thought we were best friends.
It was like night and day.
U got me hella tats walkin side by side with a white officer Westland at that.
I’ve been calling all day trying to get his name because I was so in shock.
I didn’t even look at his name tag.
Never judge a book by it’s cover it’s most def is some good guys left.
I told him I never met a officer like u.
He said I’m just doing my job what good would giving u a ticket do besides putting u further in the hole making it harder on you to come up.’
LaVonte told ABC News: ‘He asked me to step out of my vehicle to talk to him, and I was just so scared thinking this couldn’t be good.’
Yet rather than handing him a ticket, the cop, who he later found out was Officer Joshua Scaglione, took time to listen to his story.
Scaglione then decided he would buy a car seat for LaVonte’s daughter there and then.
http://i.imgur.com/mtIDYoV.png
LaVonte said: ‘He purchased one for me, and it was pink, which is my daughter’s favourite colour. It has butterflies and she loves it.’
The 28-year-old dad was reunited with the officer on Wednesday after a Facebook post about the incident went viral.
He hopes his experience will tell people to ‘never judge a book by its cover’.
Scaglione says he was just doing his job, adding: ‘You know a ticket doesn’t help all the time.’