Ready to Cry?: Body Cam Footage Shows Kind Officer Rescuing Lost Non-Verbal Teen, Holding His Hand

A police officer in Lee County, Florida, made headlines for tenderly helping a lost and mostly non-verbal boy find his way back home.

Deputy Humberto Labaut found a teenager named Mike wandering along State Road 82, and soon realized that the boy was unable to describe where he had come from, according to a July 22 report from WFTX-TV.

The boy was a 13-year-old identified only as Mike.

Labaut’s body camera showed him using a pen and paper to try communicating with the teenager, who was seen in the footage wearing glasses and a tanktop.

As they started the search for Mike’s mother, Labaut gently asked if Mike would like to take his hand.

According to WFTX, the Lee County Sheriff’s Office and Fort Myers

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