Cenk Uygur
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NYPD Officer's Kind Act For Homeless Man Goes Viral
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December 1, 2012
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3:18Now Playing"On a cold November night in Times Square, Officer Lawrence DePrimo was working a counterterrorism post when he encountered an older, barefooted homeless man. The officer disappeared for a moment, then returned with a new pair of boots, and knelt to help the man put them on.
The act of kindness would have gone unnoticed and mostly forgotten, had it not been for a tourist from Arizona.
Her snapshot — taken with her cellphone on Nov. 14 and posted to the New York Police Department's official Facebook page late Tuesday — has made Officer DePrimo an overnight Internet hero."*
Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian discuss the picture of an officer's kind act toward a shoeless homeless man sitting in the street. Salon says that while this is an incredibly generous gesture, it should not discount the NYPD as a whole's poor record with the homeless. Is this a random act from one kind officer, or perhaps a sign of softening attitudes?
*Read more from J David Goodman/ New York Times:
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