Another police "incident" worth noting

Recently in Riverside County, California, sheriff's Deputy Cody Ballard and his partner were  called to the Red Lion Inn because an employee was concerned about a woman sitting on a bench outside the hotel. The woman and her 4-year-old daughter had missed their bus, and planned to sleep on the bench overnight until they could catch the next bus to San Diego in the morning.

Ballard went to a local motel, negotiated the lowest room rate, and dug into his own pocket to pay for a night's stay for them. He wasn't expecting his partner to take this photo. He prefers to obey one of his favorite Bible verses, which (in some translations) says, "So when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets." Perhaps the picture spread far and wide because Ballard is white, and the woman and her child are Black, but he says this difference never crossed his mind.