From goat farming to law enforcement for new Bakersfield police officer
0Bakersfield Police Officer Adewale Lebimoyo has always had the heart of a cowboy. He grew up on a small farm in Sacramento, California raising goats and chickens alongside his Nigerian father, who also grew up raising goats and chickens. Farm life was a family business. And while it wasn’t always ideal, Lebimoyo can look back and realize those early mornings chasing after chickens and herding squirmy Billy goats was what brought him to the dusty landscape of Bakersfield, where cowboying is a way of life. “If you can imagine being a kid and being woken up by your dad…
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