A 12-year-old Minnesota boy who had dreamed of becoming a police officer was sworn in as an honorary cop shortly before he was tragically taken off life support.

Raghav Shrestha was given his own badge and made an honorary member of the Sartell Police Department in front of his heartbroken family at Hennepin County Medical Center on Thursday after a bike crash triggered a heart attack days earlier, police said.

“We learned today that Raghav’s dream was always to become a police officer when he grew up,” Sartell Police Chief Brandon Silgjord said in a statement posted on Facebook Thursday. 3

“Several of us involved in the incident were able to visit Raghav this morning, and in the presence of his family pin him with his own badge and swear him in as an honorary police officer wit

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