The picture of a police officer in Kansas acting as an especially good Samaritan has gone viral.
Featured below, the image was snapped in a mall in Overland Park last month.
It depicts Andy Black, a 27-year veteran of the force, feeding a baby whose mother just suffered a seizure.
Black was working his off-duty job when he got a call about a women who fell.
He rushed to the scene and saw the lady was "disoriented and shaking" while recovering from a seizure… yet still trying to pick up her daughter.
So Black, who has four kids and 14 grandchildren, asked if he could be of assistance.
"She let me have the baby with her bottle and the baby was crying and I gave her the bottle," he said. "And somebody took a picture."
A local artist named Jilli Nel was standing nearby and took the photo.
"The two of them looked as if they were in their own world as she stared into his eyes and he just spoke to her while feeding," she told ABC News.
"As a mother I felt the pull on my heart seeing such a beautiful moment and I asked him if I may take his photo."
Black adds he and other first responders helped escort the woman to an ambulance; by that time, the baby's grateful father had arrived to take the child.
"I think this touches the hearts of people," Black said, trying to comprehend why the photo has grown so popular. "It has gotten so big and I'm like, really, this is not a big deal."
Perhaps that helps explain exactly why it's so popular: Black simply did what came naturally, and that was to help his fellow human being.
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