Black Woman Stuns Cop With Surprising Request, Then He Looks Behind Her
By Dreamer
While sitting in his parked patrol car and waiting for his partner, an Oklahoma police officer didn’t have to go looking for action, when it came to him instead. An African-American woman slowly rolled by him, before stopping her car and approaching the white officer with a shocking request, before he noticed what was right behind her.
A pair of two Muskogee cops, known as Pancho and Lefty, pulled over into a city park parking lot to wrap up some shift duties, while on their regular daytime patrol. Seemingly out of nowhere, a woman pulled up alongside them and began making her way toward their vehicle.
Muskogee, OK Officer who was randomly approached in park (left), his patrol car (right)
With a look of concern consuming her face, the only officer in the car at the time could only imaging what was about to happen, but he never expected her to present him with the offer she did. The unnamed woman didn’t need help with anything, but she did have an urgent safety concern — the officer’s.
In a post about the incident on social media, the cop explained that “she simply stated that she wanted to pray for me. Specifically for my safety.” He couldn’t help but notice her two small children, one at her feet, the other in her arms who was too young to walk on her own. The children looked at him in awe at the honor to bless this man’s life, for which the officer gratefully accepted.
The mother and her children circled around him, as she prayed for his protection, which meant more to this man than the woman could ever know. “I expressed my gratitude the best I could, but she really has no idea how much that meant to me,” the cop wrote in his post. After her prayer came to an end, her little boy looked up at the cop with his big brown eyes and reached into his pocket to give the officer a gift.
Officer with the praying woman and her two children
“Her little boy handed me a wilted flower that looked as if it had been in his pocket for a week,” he wrote. “At that moment, it was the most beautiful flower I’d ever seen.” However, the interaction stuck with him for deeper reason than her faithful gesture. Pancho and Lefty hadn’t planned to share this afternoon occurrence on their shared Facebook page, until one of them realized the bigger thing at play in what happened that day.
“My prayer is that sharing this encounter will encourage many to give people a chance, regardless of race or profession,” they began to conclude, after explaining what a stranger did for them. “You simply cannot judge an entire group of people because of the actions of some. Don’t hate evil more than you love good.”
This woman is setting a great example for her children who are growing up in an era where many feel entitled to disrespect those who are there to protect them. Thank you to these excellent officers, who disproved the naysayers who fuel their hate for law enforcement with assumptions of racial injustice, which wasn’t evident in this parking lot.
The officer didn’t reach for his gun when he saw her coming, he extended his hand. The cop, the woman, and her children came together that afternoon as common people living in a terrifying time, both in need of God’s superior protection.
h/t: [LoveWhatMatters]
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