A positive story for law enforcement.
Via Daily Mail
The police officer captured in an emotional picture taken at the scene of a deadly car crash has revealed he sang a nursery song to a two-year-old girl to distract her as her family was pulled from the wreckage of their wrecked SUV.
Officer Nick Struck says he was the third officer at the scene in Brighton, Colorado last Thursday, and was soon handed a toddler to look after as other emergency responders assisted the rest of her family in the vehicle.
The girl’s father did not survive the crash and her mother and another sibling were airlifted to the emergency room.
Ambulances took the child and two of her three siblings to hospital.[…]
‘The first thing we do when we get on scene is we just try to, if we can comfort anybody, of course we’re going to go to the kids.
‘So then the role we do is, to keep them safe, what would I want that dad to do if it was my daughter.’
The father of a two-year-old daughter himself, Struck knew exactly what to do to keep the little girl calm – he started singing ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’.
‘I know for my daughter, it’s just the attention that someone is there, listening. It’s the same for adults, but kids, they take it on a whole other level.
‘They’ll gravitate to you, and I remember when I was holding her, she was grabbing the back of my arm, which is something my daughter does. Just stroking to the music, “twinkle, twinkle.”‘