This Virginia police officer's motto: To protect and serve -- and then play dolls.<br /><br />South Hill Police Cpl. C.B. Fleming is being praised by the community after a video emerged showing him laying on the ground playing with children. On Valentine's Day, Fleming was responding to a report of a gas leak at an apartment complex, and once the area was deemed safe, he took a moment to play with the kids before heading back out.<br /><br />"I was telling him that my daughter, my niece, and some of the other children here were afraid of cops," Iesha Roper-Boswell, who recorded the video, told CNN affiliate WTVR. "So when he came and played with them, I captured that moment, not because I thought it would go viral, but it was amazing that my niece didn't break out into tears."<br /><br />Officer Fleming showed off his art skills by coloring with some boys and even played dolls with the girls.<br /><br />"When I got into this job, I knew there was something different, other than just writing tickets and being the bad person all the time," Fleming, a 15-year veteran in the department, told WTVR.<br /><br /> "I figured if I could be that bright spot in someone's day, then that's all that mattered."<br /><br />CNN affiliate WTVR went out to the apartment complex to speak to Fleming and the neighborhood kids immediately swarmed him.<br /><br />"He's awesome. That's the only word you can really use to describe C.B.," said Roper-Boswell. "It's just amazing, the bond he has with the children."
