A photograph captured what it truly means to be a public servant, and it’s gaining a lot of attention.
Nick Struck, a police officer from Brighton, Colorado, scooped a distraught two-year-old girl into his arms and began singing to her. She and her family had just experienced a deadly car crash that took the life of her father and sent the rest of her family to the hospital.
According to a press release from the city, none of the vehicle's occupants, two adults and four children, were wearing seatbelts and were all ejected from the SUV.
Struck, being a father himself, picked up the crying girl and did exactly what he would do for his own daughter.
“My daughter, who’s the sweetest thing in the world when she falls down and cries, she wants ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ sung to her,” Struck said. “So this girl, I was singing ‘Twinkle Twinkle Little Star’ and pointing to the lights in the fire truck.”
“She was crying. She was soaked in gasoline from the truck. The smells were awful,” he said.“She put her arm around my shoulder just like my daughter does and that’s really when the emotions kicked in.”
Jessica Matrious witnessed the crash and stopped to help. She took the picture and posted it to Twitter and it has since fanned out all across social media
“It’s humbling, that’s for sure,” Struck said. “It’s kind of a little glimpse but it really does happen every day.”