In the chill of a November morning in Denver, a woman’s puzzling predicament became a moment of human connection and kindness, thanks to the actions of a local police officer. As detailed in a social media post by the Denver Police Department, Officer Gabriel Orozco of District 1 responded to an incident on November 23 involving a disoriented woman near Speer and Zuni.
The woman, suffering from Alzheimer’s, had left her hotel room unbeknownst to her husband and found herself adrift in the city’s landscape, eventually entering a nearby hotel’s embrace for help; despite efforts by the staff to contact her husband, his phone remained unreachable, slumbering in airplane mode. Officer Orozco, embodying the Department’s ethos of compassion, stepped forward, assisting with a new room key for the woman and ensuring her comfort with a blanket and water, then personally escorting her to safety…