Thousands of people have watched a police officer near Houston get out of his car to toss a football with a boy in a neighborhood after noticing he was all alone.

Sgt. Ariel Soltura's act of kindness has melted hearts around the world after the Rosenberg Police Department posted the Dashcam video on their Facebook page.

"It was awesome," Soltura told KTRK-TV news.

"If we see a kid kicking the can, they want us to go out there and replace that can with a ball," he said of his department's policy. "Hopefully we've made an impact on these kids' futures for the rest of their lives."

(WATCH the video below, or READ the story from KTRK)