A Michigan officer who pulled a driver over because a 5-year-old child wasn’t secured in a booster chose to open his wallet rather than write a ticket.
Emmett Township public safety officer Ben Hall was on patrol last Friday in the southern Michigan township when he stopped a vehicle after reports of an unsecure youngster inside. After evaluating the situation, he chose to buy the driver a new car seat.
“A ticket doesn’t solve the situation,” Hall told local FOX affiliate WXMI-TV. “What solves it is the child being in the booster seat like she should be.”
Alexis DeLorenzo and her young daughter were riding with a friend when they were stopped by officer Hall.
Hall said DeLorenzo told him she was aware the child should be in a booster but had fallen on hard times and couldn’t afford it.
“It was the easiest 50 bucks I ever spent,” he said. “It’s something that anybody in the same position, in our position, would do.”
DeLorenzo said instead of receiving a ticket, the officer told her to meet him at a nearby Walmart, where he bought her the car seat.
“He did his job and above and beyond that, just to protect a little girl and to help a family that can’t help themselves right now,” she said. “I’m never going to forget him. And neither will my daughter.”
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