Today we reunited Long Beach resident Tiffany Hall, a woman formally caught in a cycle of substance abuse, to the @LBPD Lieutenant who helped turn her life around!
She took the moment to invite him to her graduation 👏🏽🎓 #GoLongBeach pic.twitter.com/sBjZIJbXjv
— Long Beach Mayor (@LongBeachMayor) April 18, 2018
It has been five years since Tiffany Hall was caught in a cycle of substance abuse and addiction. Now, she is about to become a college grad – and she credits her success to the police officer who arrested her.
Hall first met Lieutenant Jim Foster when he was arresting her on drug charges in Long Beach, California. It was to be the first of many encounters between Hall and the compassionate police officer.
“I became a product of my environment — drug infestation — and I became that,” Hall said during their recent reunion at the police department. “But then somewhere, somehow Lt. Foster became a part of my life. For some reason, he would always take me to…
