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packman

(16,296 posts)
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 12:31 PM Jul 2020

D.C. Cop defuses a situation with a dance - off


VIDEO at link- Well worth watching

On Monday afternoon, D.C. police officers broke up two groups of fighting teenagers. A few minutes later, a female officer approached the lingering crowd and told the teens to disperse.

That’s when Aaliyah Taylor, a 17-year-old senior at Ballou High School, walked up to the officer and started playing “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” on her phone. Then she did the Nae Nae dance.

The officer, according to Taylor, laughed and said she had far better dance moves than that.

What happened from there on the 200 block of K Street SW was a rather impressive dance-off between the police officer and the teen, and an example of positive community policing at a time when national attention is focused on discriminatory and abusive police tactics. The onlooking teens caught the dance battle on their cell phones while a song by rapper Dlow played in the background.

“Instead of us fighting, she tried to turn it around and make it something fun,” Taylor said. “I never expected cops to be that cool. There are some good cops.”

https://crooksandliars.com/2015/10/one-dc-cops-creative-way-deal-group-teens
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D.C. Cop defuses a situation with a dance - off (Original Post) packman Jul 2020 OP
This is community policing at its finest. Aristus Jul 2020 #1
THIS is what needs to go viral! Thanks :). N/T Guilded Lilly Jul 2020 #2
Cool, but it's from 2015. nt tblue37 Jul 2020 #3

Aristus

(66,329 posts)
1. This is community policing at its finest.
Fri Jul 17, 2020, 12:35 PM
Jul 2020

I don't see how we're going be able to enlist the pot-bellied, doughnut-munching, gun-crazed man-boys into the program, though. They get into it for the badges, guns, and license to kill...

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