From KTRK
We are hearing from two key players in the so called ‘hug shared around the world.’
Sgt. Bret Barnum with the Portland Police Department and Johnny Nguyen the photographer. (KTRK)
This photograph of a Portland, Oregon police officer hugging a 12-year-old boy during a protest last week has gone viral. The police officer in the picture and the photographer who took it both agree that the little boy named, Devonte, is a special human being. Devonte was at that protest holding a “free hugs” sign.
It’s an unusual image as people around the country protest a grand jury’s decision to not indict a white police officer in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri.
Photographer Johnny Nguyen wanted to know from Devonte why he was at the protest.
“I was like, ‘Hey, what’s your name,” asked Nguyen. “He said, ‘My name is Devonte.’ And I asked, ‘Do you know what’s going on? He said, ‘a protest?’
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