A Pittsburgh-area police officer bought a couple’s dinner after a man
said he didn’t want to sit next to four cops at a restaurant Friday
night.
Homestead, Pa., Officer Chuck Thomas told ABC News
he said “we won’t hurt you” but the man “looked at me hard again” and
walked to a table on the other side of the Eat n' Park diner. Thomas
posted a photo to Facebook of the receipt for the $28.58 meal.
“Sir, your check was paid for by the police officers that you didn’t
want to sit next to,” he wrote in a handwritten note on the tab. “Thank
you for your support. I left a $10.00 tip too.”
The encounter happened the night after a sniper at a Black Lives Matter
protest in Dallas killed five police officers. The ambush, which
followed police shootings in Minnesota and Louisiana and protests around
the country, has prompted questions about whether police officers feel
supported by the communities they protect.
“The day after Dallas, it was tight. You could feel the tension in the
air. A lot of people did come up to us and thank us and shook hands and
spoke of their sorrow. This was the only negative experience of the
day," Thomas told ABC.
He continued, “Essentially that was the whole goal of it was to let him
know that we’re not to here to hurt you. We’re not here for that. We’re
here for you. We work for the public, and we just want to better the
relationship between the community and the police.
A server later told Thomas the couple seemed "thrown back by it" and laughed when they realized he paid.a
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