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Shop with a Cop helps youngsters fill Christmas stockings
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Adam, 8, Dawson, 7, Betty and Layla Bowman, 6 months, get ready to go shopping Saturday with Sgt. Mike Burgamy through Shop with a Cop at Target in Gainesville. - photo by Erin O. Smith
It’s not every day a fully uniformed, gun-toting officer of the law wanders through the kid’s section of a department store, pushing a cart full of “Frozen” toys and taking orders from a 5-year-old in pink sequined boots. That only happens when you Shop with a Cop. “We enjoy this so much,” said Cpl. Joe Britte of the Gainesville Police Department.