The story she told me Saturday matched up with what I had seen when I was there,'' he said. "I felt like it was the right thing to do. I didn't want to pass judgment on her."
She asked how she could repay him, and he told her to not shoplift again. "Sometimes the best route is to not arrest,'' Stacy said. "I hope she won't do it again. I pray she doesn't, and I don't think she will."
Johnson asked Stacy if she could hug him, and he said yes. Unbeknownst to both of them, a man named Robert "Dollar" Tripp filmed the scene on his cell phone and later posted it on his Facebook with the hashtag "feelgoodstoryoftheday."
Johnson said she went home and fed her family with the dozen eggs. They also had a loaf of bread. It was the first thing they had eaten since Thursday, and it's all they had been eating since Saturday. As of Tuesday morning, they were down to their last slice of bread.
"It's tight,'' she said, "but I'll take tight over being in jail any day."
Stacy said he, too, went on his way. Within a couple of hours, his phone was blowing up by friends and co-workers who had seen the video of his good deed.
"My co-worker said it was all over Facebook,'' Stacy said.
On Tuesday, Tarrant police showed up at her home. "I was shook and so scared, "she said. "I thought it was about the eggs. My grandbaby said, 'Are you going to jail?' and I said I hoped not."
No, what Tarrant police had in mind today couldn't have been farther than jail.
The officers took Johnson back to police headquarters where they signed her up for the Tarrant Toy Drive, and also are helping to coordinate the offers of food and clothing also pouring in, said Tarrant police Sgt. Larry Rice.
Each year, Tarrant Fire heads an operation where they take donations and put together 225 food baskets, which today they provided to Johnson.
The department has been overwhelmed since the story of Stacy's kindness and Johnson's plight became public. They have had calls from as far away as Canada.
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 7:34 pm Post subject:
Glad he didn't take her to jail, woulda generated 10 pages. This good deed won't garner 1. _________________ Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:02 pm Post subject:
Isn't it funny how society criminalizes members of its underclass for doing stuff like stealing a small amount of food to survive, all while allowing the real crooks on Wall Street to get away with murder? _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
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Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2014 8:12 pm Post subject:
CandyCanes wrote:
Isn't it funny how society criminalizes members of its underclass for doing stuff like stealing a small amount of food to survive, all while allowing the real crooks on Wall Street to get away with murder?
Les Miserables - 5 years for stealing bread to feed his starving family.. Then 14 more for attempting to escape.
And yes.. It is one of the reasons I still get angry about politics.
Build more prisons instead of better educational systems.
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Posted: Fri Dec 12, 2014 6:09 am Post subject:
ContagiousInspiration wrote:
CandyCanes wrote:
Isn't it funny how society criminalizes members of its underclass for doing stuff like stealing a small amount of food to survive, all while allowing the real crooks on Wall Street to get away with murder?
Les Miserables - 5 years for stealing bread to feed his starving family.. Then 14 more for attempting to escape.
And yes.. It is one of the reasons I still get angry about politics.
Build more prisons instead of better educational systems.
Hell, forget stealing food. How about going after minorities for smoking marijuana while turning a blind eye to rich WASPs using cocaine?
Ugh. At least this one had a happy ending. _________________ Damian Lillard shatters Dwight Coward's championship dreams:
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