Winston and Christian Edmondson appear on 'Fox & Friends' to discuss graduating police academy together.
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Steve. Thank you, Carley Great
story,
a father and some coming
together to serve the community.
Winston and his son Christian
have graduated from a Texas
Police Academy together marking
the first time a Father son duo,
completed the rigorous training.
At the same time,
Winston and Christian join us
right now from Lewisville
Texas,
guys good morning to you
good morning,
good morning,
Steve Christian, you decided
early on. You wanted to devote
your life to law enforcement.
Why?
So? It was actually my dad
that gave me the idea he told me.
It would be something that I
would be good at.
I poked around and talked to
some of of my resource office in
high school
enrolled applied and got hired
and went on from there
Steve, okay,
very good.
So Winston you talk your son
into going into law enforcement,
but you werent in law
enforcement,
and so he gets into the academy,
and you think you know what
thats a great line of work.
Despite
so headlines, you see these days
im going to try to get into the
academy with my son
right.
Tell us that
yeah, it
kind of caught me off guard,
because I had been encouraging
both of my sons to get into law
enforcement.
I didnt know that he was
serious or ready to do it yet
and then, when he told me that he
had signed up,
he had gotten the job and he was
already enrolled to be in police
academy.
I didnt want him to jump ahead
of me,
so I immediately went up to the
academy and I was practically
begging them to get me in at
that point. It was actually too
late.
There wasnt enough time to get
me
in. I want to extend my thanks
here on the air to
Mr Mcgregor, because I think
he just knew how special it
would be if he could get us in.
So he worked overtime to at that
last minute to squeeze me in,
and you know every day he
would say I dont think were
going to do it
im going to try but dont get
your hopes up
one day he said Winston you are
in
thats. When I knew yeah we
would get to do this together,
Steve. That is awesome
christian. You are probably
thinking man, I cant shake this
guy. Is he at home? And now at
the academy with me,
I understand you guys carpooled
together and things like that.
But at the same time you are a
driven young man, and I
understand you are very
competitive with your father.
Yes, sir,
tell me about that.
We have a very competitive
nature.
Our family likes to get into
arguments and stuff
before it was nothing about law
enforcement or anything,
but we started as we would be on
the way driving to class. We
would be talking about some
scenarios and kind of giving our
take, and I dont really like
that.
What do you think about this,
and also on the physical aspect
when it came to defensive
tactics,
he was in much better shape than
I thought he was going into it
Steve. That is great of to you
say
I note Christian: have you
already got a job
Winston you are looking for.
One
ultimately is the dream for you:
two to work together as a couple
of buddy cops and drive around
in a car together like a tv
show,
because if you do get that job,
I would imagine some reality
producer going to knock on your
window and said this is a tv
show.
We have got to put cameras in
this car
laughter.
Well, I will tell you at his
swearing in which, for me was a
proud moment to see him give
that oath and become a police
officer right before my eyes
after he stepped aside. I spoke
with his chief and we kind of
talked about hey what, if I did
come to and work with you
I think for now. I do want to him
to have his ability to you know
be with his own officer and not
have dad in the same department.
I want to go to maybe a smaller
department,
Steve right,
where I can really feel like
im, making a difference in that
community, whereas he has a
larger department and the
community already loves. You
know the community loves their
police officers,
so he is right where he needs to
be.
I feel like I want to go
somewhere where maybe I can get
to the community and try to
build a relationship where you
know. Sometimes there is already
some mistrust between certain
communities and law enforcement.
I would love to try to get in
there and make a difference and
try to make a change
Steve guys. Thank you very much
for dedicating your lives to
making us all safe.
Congratulations to you, Winston,
following in the footsteps of
your son, Christian into the
academy,
Laughter
Steve into law enforcement.
Thank you
Steve guys. Thank you.
Transcript generated on 2020-11-27.