By Police1 Staff
PHOENIX — A Phoenix officer’s act of kindness has people praising his actions, 12 News reported.
Officer Mark Valenzuela was on patrol when he noticed a homeless man he was speaking to did not have shoes on.
Valenzuela took the man to find shoes at a nearby store, but couldn’t find any that fit the man. The officer then took out a pair of shoes intended for his son and they fit the man perfectly.
“I could see a little money in his pocket... Some dollar bills and some change. He wanted to pay me for the shoes,” Valenzuela said to the news site. “That kind of choked me up a little bit.”
Valenzuela said officers go out of their way all the time for those in need, he just happened to be recorded.
“Most officers that come on this job come on because we want to help people,” he said. “It doesn’t take much to show a little bit of kindness and give a complete stranger something.”