http://www.dailykos.com/story/2015/10/29/1442015/-White-Cop-goes-to-break-up-black-teenagers-Guess-what-happens-next
Yesterday afternoon, after D.C. police officers broke up two groups of fighting teenagers, a female officer, who has been with the force for about three years and recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq, approached the lingering crowd and told the teens to disperse.
A 17 year old senior then walked up to the officer and started playing “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” on her phone. Then she did the Nae Nae dance.
Quick -- how does the officer respond?
The officer, according to the senior, laughed and said she had far better dance moves than that.
WaPo reports:
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.”
Taylor said the officer told the group that if the teens won the dance-off, they could stay. If the officer won, they would have to leave.
The two of them danced -- the student got tired -- and they both declared that they both won.
Situation defused. A little bit of positive energy was injected into the world.
BTW, you have to see the video! http://www.washingtonpost.com/...
proud to say this happened in my home city of Wash., DC, not a daily occurrence but an occurence positively!!! police brutality is a reality and so is police benevolence recognize eveybody
