A Picture of Unity We Want Mainstream Media to Show More Often! St. Louis Police Sergeant Helps Man with His Tie for Job Interview

News Staff : Sep 25, 2017
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"It was a really cool moment. One of the better moments of my career." -Sgt. Howard Marshall

(St. Louis, MO)—[Faithwire.com] Sometimes it's the simplest acts of duty that garner the most fanfare. (Photo: St. Louis County Police Department via Facebook/ via Faithwire.com)

On Monday morning, two St. Louis County Police officers were on duty when a man approached them. The man, St. Louis resident Willie Hatcher, was on his way to a job interview and asked the officers for help with tying his necktie, the department wrote on Facebook.

One of the officers—Sgt. Howard Marshall—not only volunteered to help the man assemble the tie but showed him how to do it while first practicing on himself as well.

"It was a really cool moment. One of the better moments of my career," Marshall, who has been on the force for 19 years, told ABC News.

Officer Abenet Carper caught the heartwarming moment on camera, which came after a protest-filled weekend over a former officer Jason Stockley's acquittal in the 2011 shooting death of Anthony Lamar Smith.

Marshall said that Hatcher seemed apprehensive at first to approach him and Carper.

"He kept staring at us, probably for 10 or 15 minutes," Marshall recalled. "I didn't know if he was going to come over and voice his displeasure with us"...

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