“We are here to show that not only do we serve the community through police work that we went to serve in other ways, too. We are serving lunch today at the Bread of Life Cafe because we want our first interaction to be kindness, not enforcing the law. We want them to know we genuinely care about them, we are not the enemy. This is why I joined the police academy in Mobile.There are 19 of us in our class and it is bonding through fire. Our class motto is one team, one family. If one of us messes up, we all mess up. We all succeed together. I have been in eight weeks and have eight more to go. I graduated from Spring Hill. I got frustrated with people who hated the police but weren’t stepping up to make change so I majored in sociology with a concentration in criminology. I have already had a heart for people but it got bigger at Spring Hill because of volunteering through their community outreach. Serving people is easy and you do what comes easy and helping bring change is the driving force in my life. My mama was a little worried about my safety when I told her I want to be a policeman because we run towards the gun shots and not away from them. It scares me because death is a real thing but it doesn’t scare me because if I don’t, someone else could die. In college, I learned you have to stop making excuses. If life is going to mean something to you, you have to be all of the way in. You can’t have one foot in and one foot out.”

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