It was a simple lemonade stand, something many other children had done before. But what happened to her was something no one expected. She became nervous. She saw the officer approach her and her family, but she had no idea why he was there. They weren’t even at home and you yet he had found them.
Then, as he went back to retrieve something from his patrol car, she wondered what was going on. But as he got closer, she realized what was in his hands. It all started to dawn on her and she had no idea how to respond. Before this happened, Melissa Garza hadn’t interacted much with the police. She, her husband and her two children live in Lake County, Ohio. Read the full story here ▶
