Riverside Police Gift Family With Toys After Home Burglary
A single mother and her two sons returned to their Riverside apartment on Christmas Eve to discover it had been burglarized and all of their gifts were stolen from under their tree.
But some officers of the Riverside Police Department ensured the family still had gifts on Christmas Day.
Body cam footage released by the department show around 3:30 a.m. on Christmas morning officers at the family’s residence with toys and an envelope with $700 donated by personnel of the police department.
“We told all of our dispatchers and officers about what happened to you. And so we all came up with some money for you. So, this is from a lot of us. It’s $700 cash. Hopefully, it’ll help out,” one officer can be heard saying in the video as the mother burst into tears and hugged him.
“Thank you,” she said. “You guys are awesome. Thank you. You guys have a Merry Christmas.”
One officer responded, “Hopefully that’ll take some of the burden off.”
According to the police department’s Facebook page, the Riverside Fire Department got wind of what happened and brought over even more gifts a few hours later.
“We couldn’t be more proud of our officers and dispatchers here at the Riverside Police Department, along with our Riverside Fire Department. And we promise our detectives will do everything they can to identify and find this criminal scrooge who tried to ruin Christmas in Riverside,” the department said in a statement.
Jamie is a California-based reporter covering issues in Los Angeles and state policies for The Epoch Times. In her free time, she enjoys reading nonfiction and thrillers, going to the beach, studying Christian theology, and writing poetry. You can always find Jamie writing breaking news with a cup of tea in hand.
