Most graduates invite their family and close friends to the ceremony -- but one Arizona kindergarten student got to bring the local police department to hers.
Shawn Prinkey is a motorcycle officer and 14-year veteran of the Mesa Police Department. As a part-time member of the military, Prinkey is also serving in the Army in Afghanistan and couldn't make his daughter Sophia's kindergarten graduation on May 13.
So his fellow Mesa police officers decided to attend the event for him instead.
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Several police officers posed for photos with the proud kindergarten graduate, and Sophia even got to sit on one of the police department motorcycles.
"There’s a lot of our officers in the military," Flores said. "And they all look out for each other."