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Guy Whitey Corngood

(26,500 posts) Wed Jul 13, 2016, 03:09 PM Jul 2016

The Game's Son Starts GoFundMe Page for Arkansas Police Officer

http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/hip-hop/7431312/the-game-son-gofundme-arkansas-police-officer

The Game has been taking steps to promote peaceful protest and conversations between communities and police in light of the recent fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile and a sniper attack on Dallas officers. And his son is no different.

Harlem Caron Taylor, the rapper's 13-year-old son, took a page out of his father’s playbook and started a GoFundMe fundraiser for an Arkansas police officer to shed light on a cop taking strides to be a positive influence. Taylor began the account with the hashtag #AGoodSonForAGoodCop.

Officer Tommy Norman of North Little Rock Arkansas has been an advocate for change within his community, writing on his community-positive website: “If you can just take two minutes out of the day to go out and make a difference, whether checking on your neighbor if they're elderly, cutting someone's grass, or hold the door for someone. It's really just acts of kindness and I think acts of kindness coming from a police officer means that much more to people because that's not something you're used to seeing.”

“Every police interaction does not have to be a negative one, and Officer Norman is changing that one person at a time," Taylor wrote. "He has changed the way he approaches the community he patrols and is committed to building strong relationships with the residents.”