A police
officer in the US has been praised for helping a homeless man shave his beard for a job interview.
Officer Tony Carlson, from the Tallahassee Police Department, in Florida, was caught on camera shaving the man's face outside a petrol station.
In a Facebook post Officer Carlson said the man, who he named as Phil, had told him he had been promised a job at the McDonald's next door if he turned up for work clean shaven.
"He asked me if I knew
anything about fixing a razor because his was broken and if I could look at it," Officer Carlson said in the video, which was posted on Tuesday.
"It was missing a screw so I tightened up the other one to the point where it actually worked."
Officer Carlson said Phil had then started to try to shave but had been struggling without a mirror, so he had stepped in to help.
"He was excited that there was a chance he was going to get this job if he did
this simple thing," he added.
The heart-warming moment was captured on video by a passerby who gave it to the Tallahassee Police Department, which posted it on its Facebook page on Sunday evening.
The post has been shared more than 1,000 times on Facebook, with many of the comments praising Officer Carlson's act of kindness...
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