DUNWOODY, Ga. — The holiday season can be tough for a multitude of reasons. The last thing you want to see while driving is blue police lights behind you.
However, this holiday season, those blue lights provided some metro Atlanta families with some much needed relief as Elevate City Church and Dunwoody PD partnered to make some “unusual holiday traffic stops.”
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Joey McLaughlin, Lead Pastor at Elevate City Church said the purpose for the initiative was to provide people with hope.
Dunwoody PD pulled drivers over for “minor traffic infractions”, and instead of giving them tickets, they were given gifts instead.
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There was a team of good Samaritans standing by at Target whose job was to pick out the gifts, wrap them and pass them along to police, who would then initiate a traffic stop to spread some good cheer.
You can see the thoughts behind the initiative below.
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