Police officer and owner of Bobby Q's Bobby Ford on giving back to the Freeport, Long Island community.
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A long island restaurant,
a long island restaurant
owner, is serving the community
in more ways than one
after he takes off the apron
at his southern barbecue. Joint
Bobby Ford puts on a police
uniform and a badge to give back
in a completely different way:
Ainsley police officer and
owner of long islands, Bgf
Bobby Qs Bobby Ford, joins us
now along side. Fox news, analyst
Lawrence Jones
Hi Lawrence
Good Morning, family
its good to be here at Bobby QS
to get some southern food here
being from Texas. I know good
food.
This is sausage and gravy
biscuits and gravy eggs grits.
It feels like just like back at
Bobbys family is from South
Carolina.
You know about that Ainsley.
He owns a restaurant during the
day
nighttime. He serves and
protects
hes truly a superhero.
How do you do it all
very little sleep first and
foremost
like I said earlier. Sometimes
you love what you do.
Sometimes you have a giving
heart.
Sometimes you follow your
passions
and when life affords you the
opportunity to follow your
passions, you adhere to that.
First from a business
standpoint. This is black
history month. A lot of talk
about black businesses and
giving back to the community
during the day youve been able
to help some of the people that
are less fortunate with giving
them meal prep.
Yes, I have a program where
we have established a meal prep
program where they snap
recipients. They can call in and
arrange for or look on our
website and see the choices that
we have and arrange for
pre packaged meals to be ready
at a certain time. So they too
can enjoy the benefits of
Bobby QS and, of course, the meals
are a fraction of the normal
price, because its not cooked
its a great deal for them.
These are customers that are
on food stamps and they can use
the food stamp card to get that
talk about your job in law
enforcement,
theres. So many critical
conversations that are happening
about race, the black community
and the police,
youre a brother youre, a black
man and youre, also a law
enforcement officer.
How do you connect with the
community
more than anything, food and
conversation?
People come in and again you
always have an open dialogue
with people.
People are human,
so when they want a speak, when
they want to talk, you talk to
them.
Everyone speaks about different
topics and at different times,
and you find a way of connecting
with people just through
conversation,
so its always a blessing to
exchange views with people
Bobby. What made you want to
be a police officer,
especially its not a you,
dont, get a lot of thanks for
this
its interesting again. I
did have the need to help
people
I really felt like I could do
more by reaching out and helping
people and bridging that gap as
a police officer.
So I think that its been a more
than positive experience for me.
Tell me how youve been able
to use that badge and connect to
the young people today, through
the athletic leagues and being a
part of the community with them
im. Also, the executive
director of New Port pal
im able to connect with the
students an parents at that
level, help them achieve
leadership through sports.
A lot of children out there need
some direction.
Some need more direction.
We try to reach out to at risk
youth as well to make sure that
everyone is kind of on the right.
Transcript generated on 2021-03-09.