http://abcnews.go.com/US/nypd-officers-act-kindness-viral-facebook-reddit/story?id=17838519#.ULfeukKGapE Tis apparently is all over the intertubez an a wonderful thing done by a NYPD officer.
My question is - since his going into the store to buy the shoes, his using his own money to buy the shoes, and his putting the socks and shoes on the homeless guy are all activities clearly outside his duties as a NYPD officer, should he be getting any credit as a NYPD officer?*
Understand, I do not in any way mean to belittle his at of generosity. Heck, with enough of the milk of human kindness flowing through me I might even begin to think his acts had parallels to tat famous washing-of-the-feet incident.
But isn't this/shouldn't this be a story outside the fact that he is a NYPD officer?
stay safe.
* Most other times of the year I would have expected to read that he got docked time, if not suspended, for doing non-cop stuff on the clock.
