Miami police officer Vicki Thomas recently stopped a mother of three from shoplifting $300 worth of food from a supermarket.

When Thomas learned that Jessica Robles was facing great financial difficulties and had no food in her house to feed her children, she spent $100 of her own money on groceries for the woman's family.

"I made the decision to buy her some groceries because arresting her wasn't going to solve the problem with her children being hungry," Thomas told WSVN.

Thomas ran Robles' criminal record and saw that she was not a habitual shoplifter, so she only charged the struggling mom with a misdemeanour.

"She asked, 'Do you even have food at the house?' And I looked at her in her face, and I told her, 'Not at all,'" recalled Robles, who frequents her local food bank and is currently looking for work.

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