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Deshawn Pressley


As today is Sunday my blog will focus on someone we can and should all admire.

On 12/5/21 Deshawn Presley was shopping at a Kroger grocery store in Butler County, Ohio. He was with his 1-year-old daughter when he struck up a conversation with 87 year old Pat Goins. When the two went into separate checkout lines, it happened.

From Fox News:

“I heard her screaming and yelling … it was the yell that I need help,” Pressley said. “And I just turned around and did what I needed to do as a citizen.”

He chased the purse-snatcher out of the store in Lemon Township and into the parking lot. Security footage shows Pressley taking down the suspect in the parking lot and making a citizen’s arrest.

(I reviewed the video … and let’s just say that there was nothing genteel and polite about his takedown of the purse snatcher.)

“He was running and looking back, running and looking back, and I was like ‘yeah, I’m on you’re a–,” Pressley said.

Pressley also said that his grandma, who raised him after his mother died, had instilled in him the values to help others. “She did very good by me,” he said. “It was good that she taught me what she taught me, and I’m thankful for her.”

For his heroic efforts, Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones presented Pressley with the Citizen’s Award on 12/16/21. Pressley was also reunited with Pat Goins, the woman whose purse was snatched.

“I’m glad that he received this honor because he’s my hero,” Pat Goins told FOX19 Cincinnati.

For the record Deshawn Pressley is black and Pat Goins is white. Also for the record, Deshawn Pressley’s daughter has much to be proud about as her dad is indeed an American hero.

12/26/21

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