Officer Joe Holt of the Independence Police Department in Missouri witnessed an act of chivalry, which should be the norm these days but sadly is not. He took a photo, and when he posted it on Facebook, it spread to thousands of people online.
The photo depicting a young man shielding an elderly lady from the rain in a mall parking lot was touching by itself. What neither of them probably noticed was the color of their skin—he is black; she is white. But Holt noticed, and he wrote the following on the Independence Police Department page:
“With all the hate fueled by color, belief [...] or race it actually pisses me off. Why, because most of it is based off what they read in the papers.”
Photo courtesy of Independence Police Department
