It’s no secret that cops tend to get a bad rap. Whether it’s because of the way some media outlets focus on their faults, or just the fact that nothing makes your stomach drop more than seeing red and blue lights in your rearview mirror, police officers aren’t always praised as the good guys that they really are.
Until this week when Autumn Snyder’s car broke down, and the superhero that saved the day was a local police officer.
She shared the experience on Facebook, praising the cop for going above and beyond the call of duty:
“Yesterday on our way home, we broke down 2 hours away from home…on a busy interstate with three kids in tow. It wasn’t exactly ideal, especially with a hungry newborn. I wouldn’t get the baby out of his seat to feed him in case we got smacked by another vehicle on the highway, he was the safest in his seat. We called dispatch and AAA and an Alabama State Trooper showed up to help. I thought he was just going to divert traffic away from our lane, but he did so much more than that. He loaded the kids and I in his car and got us off the highway and to the closest rest stop.”
Autumn says her husband, Sean, stayed with the car to wait for the tow truck, while the officer brought her and the kids down to the station—getting them off the side of the highway, out of the dark and Alabama heat.