Photo of boy hugging officer at Portland's Ferguson protest goes viral

[LibCampFireClub 635]

Very touching!

Photo of boy hugging officer at Portland's Ferguson protest goes viral

A touching photo that captures a helmeted white police officer hugging a teary-eyed 12-year-old African-American boy at a Ferguson shooting protest in Oregon has gone viral on social media.

More than 150,000 Facebook users shared the image hours after The Oregonian newspaper posted it on its website.

Freelance photographer Johnny Nguyen snapped the picture when Portland Police Sgt. Bret Barnum and 12-year-old Devonte Hart embraced at a Nov. 25 rally protesting the decision of a Missouri grand jury not to indict Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson in the shooting death of teen Michael Brown.

Barnum told the newspaper the hug took place after he saw Devonte in the crowd at the rally with tears in his eyes holding a "Free Hugs" sign.

"There were generic questions about his favorite subject and what he liked to do in the summer, but the one that mattered hit straight to the heart. He asked Devonte why he was crying," the boy's mother Jen said on Facebook.

She said the moment "was one of the most emotionally charged experiences I’ve had as a mother."

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/11/29/photo-boy-hugging-officer-at-portland-ferguson-protest-goes-viral/

[DavenRoxy 1,073]

I wonder why they didn't show the next picture, where the cop threw the kid backwards then drew on him and shot him in the leg???

[Janelle2002 3,865]

What? ExEXPAT showing a white guy and a black kid hugging?? What is wrong with VJ today???

[LibCampFireClub 635]

What? ExEXPAT showing a white guy and a black kid hugging?? What is wrong with VJ today???

Hugging ain't easy when there is a regime in Washington blaming whites and conservatives for crime in black neighborhoods. They have marketed and actually sold the notion that white cops are deliberately targeting and killing unarmed blacks for no reason whatsoever. Hands up, don't shoot. What a load CattleShit.

[Janelle2002 3,865]

Hugging ain't easy when there is a regime in Washington blaming whites and conservatives for crime in black neighborhoods. They have marketed and actually sold the notion that white cops are deliberately targeting and killing unarmed blacks for no reason whatsoever. Hands up, don't shoot. What a load CattleShit.

I haven't seen Obama chanting Hands Up Don't Shoot. Who are you referring to in Washington?

[LibCampFireClub 635]

I haven't seen Obama chanting Hands Up Don't Shoot. Who are you referring to in Washington?

The entire 0bola cabinet, from himself, to smolder, to blame it on the video rice, to parrot jarret. From Cambridge, to if I had a son, to a nation of cowards, to the Ferguson visit and investigation. It's one big cluster cluck. White privilege?