During a Queens, New York bus ride in October, Brooklyn rapper Moise Morancy took upon himself to intervene when a 15-year-old girl was being forcibly touched by another bus passenger. His true act of heroism has since been recognized by the New York Police Department with a Good Samaritan Award, which was handed to Morancy on Saturday (November 26).
“Today I was honored by the NYPD with the Good Samaritan Award! I am humbled by this gesture! Thank you!” he captioned on an Instagram pic of the plaque.
Morancy was detained after saving the young girl however it was Sergeant Johnny J. Hines III of the 112th precinct, who ordered the 21-year-old’s release once they figured out who the real perv was.
“If he never existed, or never joined the force, my perception of police probably wouldn’t have changed until much later in life,” the Chronicles of the Ghetto rapper said.
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See It: Morancy documented the incident on his social media accounts before the NYPD got involved.
It’s a breath of fresh are considering the current political and racial climate in America. The 21-year-old shared his first memory of an encounter with police officials when he was 12 and it wasn’t a pleasant one.
“It got real physical for no reason,” he said in an interview with the NYDaily News. “I was walking on the street and they roughed me up, and I didn’t know why.”
He also recounts memories of negative encounters with the police at the ages of 18 and 19, admitting that he’s been racially profiled in both of those situations.
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“I had a lot of negative interactions with police,” he says.
Since being awarded he’s convinced that there are some good police officers out there who do good work and who recognize good people.
