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LA mom saves family from fake armed cop with taco ruse, deputies say | Miami Herald
Saved by the taco.
A Southern California mother knew not to trust a suspicious armed man claiming to be an undercover cop — and her quick thinking saved her family, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.After spending a hot Sunday cooling off at a local waterpark, the family stopped for street tacos in Industry, California, just after 6 p.m., deputies said. But as the parents and their four children enjoyed food and sodas in their minivan, a man rode up to them on a bicycle and said he was an undercover police officer.
The man showed them a gun in his waistband and whipped out what he said was a police badge, according to deputies.
That wasn’t fooling the mother, though. Even as the man began to “intimidate and terrorize”
Saved by the taco.