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Police Officers Getting Fame for the Right Reasons

Friday, March 08, 2013

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TheBright.com™ News

By Brett Gillin

First it was Lawrence DePrimo. Now it’s Charles Ziegler. These are names that if you don’t already know… well you should!

So here’s the thing: Viral videos and pictures go “viral” for a reason. And that reason is almost always because they are showing something embarrassing, hilarious, or awful. You don’t have to look much further than this site to see a couple of them actually. (Self-Promotion!)

It’s rare that something goes viral because it’s an amazing act of kindness.

It’s even rarer that the subject of that act-of-kindness viral video/photo is a police officer. Like it or not, when police videos or photos become internet sensations, they’re often for terrible reasons.

But to lift your spirits today and send you skipping into the weekend, we would like to offer two shining examples of good people doing good things for the good of it. Good.

Late last year, this photo, captured by Jennifer Foster, went viral. In it, you see the New York Police Department’s Officer Lawrence DePrimo watching as an elderly homeless man puts on the socks and boots that the office just purchased for him [see video above].

Even the most cynical of people have to give Officer DePrimo some credit for an act like that.

Now, this photo [above] out of Winston-Salem North Carolina.

The photo, posted by Ed McNeal on Twitter, shows Officer Ziegler placing a stroller into the back of his patrol car. While this being a hilarious story about a police officer arresting an infant would certainly cause it to go viral, the truth behind the picture is even better. It turns out, according to Lilit Marcus’s story for the NBC News Today Show, Officer Ziegler was off duty working his security job when he spotted a mother pushing her child’s stroller through the rain.

So he decide to offer them a lift, Mr. McNeal snapped a picture, and the rest is uplifting internet history.

Do you have stories or examples of our everyday heroes going viral? Post them below!

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