Find out what the Westminster cop thinks about the Facebook photo that went viral
0Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives: This story is fromMarch 8, 2016. More than 5.5 million views and thousands of comments. The viral Facebook photo of Westminster Officer Mike Gradilla posing with a little boy dressed as an officer has gone international. It hit in Cosmopolitan and People magazines, landed in publications in Thailand, Mexico and Australia and was on several major local television stations and Inside Edition. The mainstream media gave Gradilla, 26, the nickname “hot cop” — which his peers likely will rib him about for many years to…
Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives: This story is…
Editor’s note: As part of our 10th anniversary, Behind the Badge is sharing stories from our archives: This story is…
Behind the Badge launched 10 years ago on a simple notion: to tell the stories of the men and women…
Westminster Police Department Detective Marcela Lopez approaches policing from a couple of different perspectives: first, as a woman, and second,…