Homeless man grateful for boots, but barefoot again (Photo: Jennifer Foster via Facebook) After Officer Lawrence DePrimo knelt beside a barefoot man on a bitterly cold November night in Times Square, giving him a pair of boots, a photo of his random act of good will quickly took on a life of its own — becoming a symbol for a million acts of kindness that go unnoticed every day and a reminder that even in this tough, often anonymous city, people can still look out for one another. Read the complete story.
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Homeless man grateful for boots, but barefoot again

(Photo: Jennifer Foster via Facebook)

After Officer Lawrence DePrimo knelt beside a barefoot man on a bitterly cold November night in Times Square, giving him a pair of boots, a photo of his random act of good will quickly took on a life of its own — becoming a symbol for a million acts of kindness that go unnoticed every day and a reminder that even in this tough, often anonymous city, people can still look out for one another.

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Cop who bought shoes for homeless man ‘really didn’t think about the money’ (Photo: TODAY) A member of the NYPD who was snapped buying a pair of new boots on a cold night for a barefoot homeless person earlier this month said he felt compelled to help the man. “The two things that really stuck out in my mind that night was just how cold it was and that this was the most polite gentleman I ever met, and I knew I had to help him,” Officer Lawrence DePrimo said Friday on TODAY. Read the complete story.
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Cop who bought shoes for homeless man ‘really didn’t think about the money’

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A member of the NYPD who was snapped buying a pair of new boots on a cold night for a barefoot homeless person earlier this month said he felt compelled to help the man.

“The two things that really stuck out in my mind that night was just how cold it was and that this was the most polite gentleman I ever met, and I knew I had to help him,” Officer Lawrence DePrimo said Friday on TODAY.

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NYT: After police bullets hit bystanders, questions about protocol (Photo: Andrew Kelly  /  Getty Images) NEW YORK — The encounter was breathtakingly brief: a surveillance video showed a gunman outside the Empire State Building on Friday pulling a pistol, pointing it at two police officers, their firing at him and his falling to the sidewalk. All the yelling and cries of pain occurred out of camera view, just north of where the gunman, Jeffrey T. Johnson, collapsed and died: nine bystanders were struck, cradling bloody arms or lying on the sidewalks and curbs. Read the complete story.
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NYT: After police bullets hit bystanders, questions about protocol

(Photo: Andrew Kelly  /  Getty Images)

NEW YORK — The encounter was breathtakingly brief: a surveillance video showed a gunman outside the Empire State Building on Friday pulling a pistol, pointing it at two police officers, their firing at him and his falling to the sidewalk.

All the yelling and cries of pain occurred out of camera view, just north of where the gunman, Jeffrey T. Johnson, collapsed and died: nine bystanders were struck, cradling bloody arms or lying on the sidewalks and curbs.

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Source: MSNBC

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