Kind cop shares pizza with homeless woman

A kind-hearted police officer was spotted selflessly taking a moment out of his day to share lunch with a homeless woman he had never met.

Officer Michael Roberts, with the Goldsboro Police Department in North Carolina, had reportedly never seen the woman before Wednesday despite working as a cop in the city for nearly a decade. He said her shirt, which read ‘Homeless. The fastest way to becoming a nobody,’ was what initially caught his eye as he drove by her.

The two exchanged glances, said ‘hey,’ and Roberts drove off. But he kept thinking about the woman after their brief encounter.

‘God put it on my heart to get her lunch. So I turned around and I asked her, “Hey, did you eat today?” And she said, “No,”‘ Roberts told CNN.

He then went and bought some pepperoni and cheese pizzas and returned to sit down with the woman, who identified herself as Michelle.

The pair shared stories while they ate. Michelle told Roberts that she had a 12-year-old daughter with liver cancer and a 23-year-old son. Meanwhile, Michelle’s husband, who is also homeless, stood across the street.

‘Homeless people are just people who are down on their luck. It can happen to anybody,’ Roberts said.

‘I come to work and my method is, “Who can I bless today? Who can I make smile?” I’m not the one that wants to take somebody’s father or mother and put them in jail.’

Roberts’ deed would have likely gone nearly unnoticed but a passerby snapped a photo, which the officer’s boss later saw.

‘The circumstances around our job are often an unpleasant call to service,’ said Police Chief Michael West.

‘But this picture just shows we’re human just like anyone else and any chance we get to serve the community and help people, we take that chance. I’m very fortunate to have Officer Rivers in our department.’

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