facts first presents officer orders
woman to open her trunk and has no idea
that she's recording him but most people
getting pulled over by a police officer
is not just a hassle it's also kind of
scary in many cases you don't know why
you're being pulled over until the
officer gets to your window you wonder
if you were speeding if you were
swerving or if you have a taillight out
you might wonder if you forgot to signal
or if you went through a stop sign that
you just didn't notice the anxiety that
you feel as the officer makes their way
to your window can cause a great deal of
stress and anxiety when the officer does
arrive they take your license
registration proof of insurance when
they take your documents back to the car
to call and verify your information the
stress begins all over again
by the time the officer does come back
you'll likely be handed a ticket that
you can't afford and you're allowed to
go on your way well this is what happens
with most traffic stops it's not what
happened to shinies Thacker when she was
pulled over by the police this is the
story of the day the police orders a
woman to open her trunk he has no idea
that she's recording everything behind
his back
shy niece was driving down the road to a
job interview when she was pulled over
by Officer Jenkins which he was pulled
over she started looking through her
glove box for her registration and her
insurance information when the officer
got to her window he told her not to
bother looking for the info instead he
told her that he pulled her over to let
her know that her brake lights were out
when the officer told shinies him out
her brake lights
she was pretty confused she had the
lights replaced the month before
therefore they shouldn't be out not yet
she explained that to the officer she
also told him that Firestone charged her
$600 to run a test on the wiring to make
sure that it was functioning properly
when she told him that she was
unemployed and that she was heading to a
job interview his heart went out to her
this poor unemployed woman had been
taken advantage of by a major
corporation and they left her with a car
that's dangerous to drive if and she had
no idea he looked at her with shock and
disbelief and then asked her to pop her
trunk she was a bit nervous
bad at first not knowing why the officer
wanted to search her trunk and when he
got inside he began moving the wires
around he was tapping the lights to see
if he could get them to turn on Chinese
couldn't believe her eyes most police
officers would have just issued a ticket
for driving with faulty brake lights
instead he was trying to help her
chinese was so shocked by what was
happening she started filming the
officer she wanted people to see how
amazing this guy was when she got home
she created a Facebook post and it read
so this happens just now I was on my way
to a job interview when I got pulled
over both of my brake lights went out at
the same time as the officer walked over
to my car I was pulling up my license
registration and insurance when he saw
me he quickly said don't worry about
pulling anything out I just want you to
know that your brake lights are out
immediately I'm upset because I just had
them replaced a month ago I told him
that Firestone wanted to charge me six
hundred dollars just to run a test on
the wiring in my car he looked at me
shocked and he told me to pop the trunk
he checked my lights in the trunk and
started to tap them but they didn't come
on he told me to pop the hood do check
the relay box then asked to get out so
he could have checked the other one he
could have easily given me a ticket
without a second thought
but he didn't instead officer Jenkins
stepped out of his role of police
officer and he became a mechanic he
wanted to make sure that my lights would
work well most I nice posted her story
and her photos on Facebook it quickly
went viral in just a few days the post
received over three hundred eighty eight
thousand likes and it was shared over
ninety thousand eight hundred times it's
not uncommon for people to talk about
problems that they have with police
officers it's also not uncommon for
there to be negative news about police
officers the reason this post went viral
so quickly is that it was a story about
a police officer who went above and
beyond to help out the driver he didn't
want to write her a ticket he didn't
want to give her a hard time the only
thing he was worried about was getting
her back on the road again safely
without needing to worry about her being
rear-ended if the driver behind didn't
know that she was planning to stop this
one incident made officer Jenkins a hero
in shine nieces mind when shinies posted
he is a blessing the Henrico County
Police Department wanted to thank the
officer themselves the
shared her photo and they created their
own post they read thank you shiny
stacker for sharing this about one of
our officers we are so proud of our
officers we are especially proud when
one of our citizens shares things like
this above and beyond the call of duty
officer Jenkins service to our country
is what it's all about and officer
Jenkins has made our department proud
officer Jenkins is a true inspiration
hopefully this story will inspire other
officers around the country to go above
and beyond the call of duty's themselves
wherever they are officers are there to
help the public and officer Jenkins has
shown exactly how to do it
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