Obuvshy homeless cop became a hero Network

In the US Internet users fond of the New York police officer who shod to barefoot homeless 42nd Street, writes The New York Times.
Photo officer Lawrence Deprima made tourist from Arizona (he did not see the police that his pictures) on the phone on November 14 has been posted on the official website of the New York Police on Facebook on Wednesday, 28 November, and in a few hours with nearly 20,000 comments and more than 300 thousand likes (at the very account, for example, about 98,000 likes).

Tourist Jennifer Foster, which itself runs the police took a picture with Deprima homeless while walking around New York, and when I returned home, went to the New York Police Department by email. She herself at the same time said that does not use Facebook and do not expect that it will become so much popular picture.
Get a photo, police representatives did not immediately recognize his colleague, but he was later identified as Lawrence Deprima. Associated with it, reporters learned the history of assistance to the homeless, whose name is unknown. According Derpimo, he saw a barefoot man while on patrol Times Square, and decided to talk to him.

A police officer said that on the street that day was very cold, he was in two pairs of socks, and even so, it was cold. "At the feet of the homeless were blisters," - said Deprima. He decided to help the homeless, he asked his shoe size and went to the shoe store where he sold a pair of boots at a discount. Purchase cost him about 75 dollarov.Derpimo keep a check to serve as a reminder of his share of some people uneasy.
After leaving the store, went to Derpimo barefooted man sat down next to him on his haunches and helped to put on shoes. According to police, almost immediately after this man got up and went their way. Journalists could not find a photo of a homeless.

Most reviews of the photos on Facebook in the discussion positive, but among them you can meet and critical, in which the user acknowledges that do not like the police, as well as find a photo staging. In turn, the police department of New York said that the picture has become the most widely discussed during the existence of the account in the social network.





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