Kindergarten Cops Stand-in Dad's Place

Dad Serving in Afghanistan Can't Attend Daughter's Kindergarten Graduation, Local Police Come Instead 
GOOD MORNING AMERICA
By ALEXA VALIENTE
May 20, 2015

"There’s a lot of our officers in the military," Flores said. "And they all look out for each other."

The Mesa Police Department attended Sophia Prinkey's kindergarten graduation, because her father and Mesa police officer Shawn Prinkey is serving in the military in Afghanistan. Courtesy Mesa Police Department

Most graduates invite their family and close friends to the ceremony -- but one Arizona kindergarten student got to bring the local police department to hers.

Shawn Prinkey is a motorcycle officer and 14-year veteran of the Mesa Police Department.

As a part-time member of the military, Prinkey is also serving in the Army in Afghanistan and couldn't make his daughter Sophia's kindergarten graduation on May 13. So his fellow Mesa police officers decided to attend the event for him instead.
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