LAPD Officers Stop To Help A Boy In Need ...With His Neckwear

Two Los Angeles Police officers were patrolling in the Boyle Heights neighborhood on August 13 when a woman and her son waved them down from the side of the road.

They weren’t in any immediate danger. The boy just needed help tying his necktie for the first day of school.

“I saw the kid waving at me and the mother asked if I could help with his tie through her car window,” Jonathan Maldonado, one of the officers, said in an interview with NBC Los Angeles.

The boy, whose name Maldonado says he didn’t catch, was on his way to orientation at Bishop Mora Salesian High.

“[The mother] was almost embarrassed and said she had been looking at YouTube videos to learn how to tie a tie,” he said.

We’ve all been there.

The officers posted an action shot on Twitter, which you can see above.

“We’re here to help the community we serve,” Maldonado said. “Sometimes people are just scared to ask.”

Check out an interview with the officers below, via NBC Los Angeles:

Images via LAPD Hollenbeck on Twitter