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An Ohio police officer has gone viral after bodycam footage<\/a> showed him purchasing formula for a desperate mother and her newborn. Corporal Hunter Willoughby was alerted by a dispatcher of an early morning call from a mother whose milk had dried up and she had been unable to find formula to feed her 1-week-old baby. Willoughby, himself a father of two, stepped in, going to a local Meijer that wasn\u2019t opened yet to seek help. Willoughby was following a hunch that someone would be in the store. \u201cThere is a mom. She said her milk dried up, and she can’t find anywhere to buy formula. Is there anybody in here who can turn on a cash register \u2026 because I’ll buy it for her and take it to her?\u201d the video shows Willoughby asking a staffer who is prepping to store for opening later in the day.<\/p>\n

The staffer allowed Willoughby into the story and his bodycam footage shows him browsing the formula aisle. After choosing a formula, another employee in the store asks Willoughby if the mother will need a bottle. Willoughby then responds, \u201cGood thinking!\u201d and then finds a bottle for the mother. Willoughby purchased the bottle and formula with his own money and made his way to the desperate mother and hungry baby, who was very relieved to receive the gift. According to Willoughby, the mother offered to pay him for the items, but he refused.<\/p>\n

The Miami Township Police Department shared the footage to its Facebook page. \u201cYou don’t often hear about everything a police officer does in the course of their shift, but I do and this is an example of the Miami Township Way,\u201d wrote Chief Mike Mills. \u201cMy heart went out to her. She said her baby had been screaming for a couple of hours and I\u2019m a dad \u2014 I know how hard that can be. Those first few months are a whirlwind of emotions,\u201d Willoughby told Today.com<\/a>. He mentioned that other members of his department have gone above and beyond the call of duty, noting that two of his colleagues had purchased a car seat for a desperate parent. \u201cYou tend to hear the bad stories, and the good stories get overlooked. We\u2019ve built our entire department around helping,\u201d said Willoughby. In a culture where the view on law enforcement is strained, Willoughby stated that the good far outweighs the bad. \u201cI\u2019ve worked with some of the best people I know, through law enforcement,\u201d he adds. \u201cYes, there are some bad officers. But 99% are good.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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