I was fired as a cop for helping a biker fix his broken taillight instead of arresting him on Christmas Eve.
23 years of spotless service ended because I gave a father trying to get home to his kids one of my patrol car’s spare bulbs instead of impounding his bike and destroying his family’s Christmas.
The chief called it “aiding a criminal enterprise” even though the man’s only crime was poverty and a burned-out taillight.
But when that biker heard about my termination, he did something for me that made the strong man like me cry like a baby and made me realize what brotherhood means for bikers. Continues…