NYPD Officer Larry DePrimo's act of kindness becomes a Facebook sensation
Photo credit: NYPD Facebook page | This Facebook posting about the NYPD officer who gave a homeless, shoeless man a pair of boots has become an online sensation. The officer was later identified as Larry DePrimo of Holbrook.
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You have to like what NYPD Officer Larry DePrimo did for a barefoot man in Manhattan one frigid night this month. In fact, more than 260,000 Facebook users have "liked" DePrimo's actions, a number that's growing every day.
After a tourist from Arizona snapped a photo of DePrimo, of Holbrook, giving the man socks and boots to ward off the cold, the image became an instant hit on the NYPD's...
