A police officer stepped in as a mentor when a boy in his school district started getting into trouble on his long walk to school. The boy didn’t have a bicycle, so the officer posed a challenge: if he stayed out of trouble he could earn a bike.
Officer Wyatt Pulver of Wichita, Kansas, has been working for Maize Police Department since August 2022, when the city of Maize and his department hired extra officers to work in the school district for safety purposes. On his first day on the job, Pulver met Brandon, 11, in the playground.
“He’s friendly. Everybody’s friendly there,” Pulver, 41, told The Epoch Times. “Some kids get to know the police officers and the disciplinarians at school more than others, and Brandon got into a little bit of trouble, so I got to know him.”…