PHOENIX — What happens when Phoenix police arrest a driver and spot a load of groceries out for delivery in the back of their car?
Well, when you're these officers, you finish the delivery!
After officers arrested a grocery delivery service driver, they took the groceries, knocked on the customer's door, and made sure she got her food. The department shared body camera footage of the moment to their social media pages.
The moment, captured on TikTok by the homeowner, went viral and has garnered 1.8M views on the social media platform.
"Wait, I'm confused," the resident (understandably) said when police arrived to ask if she ordered groceries.
"The person that was delivering had a little mishap with us," the officer explained.
Eric Dilyard, a patrol officer with the Phoenix Police Department, said he was called to the scene and said the driver asked police to take the groceries back to the store so another driver could help complete the food delivery order.
"I just said, 'Well, you're already out. Might as well complete your sale, [so] you get paid,' Dilyard."'No sense in you losing your job for something silly', so I completed his his transaction for him."
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Wadan Khan said he was next door at his brother's house when he saw police officer vehicles at his house.
"I didn't know why they were here. First thought was anxiety and fear and I was like, 'Let me go see what, what's going on," Khan said.
Khan said he finally figured out that his roommate had ordered the grocery items and that the police was there to make the delivery.
"In that moment, my emotions went from fear to joy all of a sudden and I was like, 'Wait a second, this is really wholesome, like officers delivering my DoorDash,"Khan said.
Khan said he's had different interactions with police and noted that this experience really helped reinforce a positive perception he had for law enforcement.
"If somebody does something nice for you, it's an emotional deposit," Khan said. "This was definitely in this definitely improved the way or my perspective of cops, so it helped."
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