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NOPD Officer Receives Unexpected Gift from Young Student

by Aaron Looney

November 1, 2016

Categories: Community, Videos

Topics: Community Policing

Officer Juan Barnes was working a security detail this morning when a young girl handed him a St. Christopher medal and asked him to wear it to help protect him on the streets.

Officer Barnes says the gesture meant the world to him.