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Heartwarming: Police officers fix child's bike after responding to crime scene

By Cox Media Group National Content Desk
June 28, 2015

Two police officers in Richmond, Virginia, are making headlines for all the right reasons.

According to WTVR, officers Aaron Grayson and Kenneth Peterson of the Richmond Police Fugitives and Firearms Initiative were called to the scene of a fatal shooting Wednesday. After responding, the officers noticed several children at a nearby playground. Peterson and Grayson walked over to the kids to comfort them and distract them from the tragic scene.

There, the officers met a boy struggling with his broken bicycle.
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"He was telling me how he can ride without his training wheels and then his chain popped off," Grayson told WTVR. "He looked at me and he goes, 'I don't know how to fix this.' So I said, 'I'm going to help you.'"

Grayson fixed the chain. Meanwhile, both officers spoke with the boy and his young sister, who was eager to show off her new summer sundress.

"One thing we like to preserve with children is their innocence and the purity that comes along with that," Peterson told WTVR. "We can't control everything that happens in the neighborhood at a certain particular point in time … but we also want to reinforce and encourage the good things about policing and also the good things about being a citizen in the community."

"He was telling me how he can ride without his training wheels and then his chain popped off," Officer Grayson said. "He...

Posted by WTVR CBS 6 News on Friday, June 26, 2015

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