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Don2 (Don1 Revised)

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In Washington, police showed up in a neighborhood near Nationals Park baseball stadium to break up a fight between two groups of teens. After it was over, 17-year-old Aaliyah Taylor, a senior at Ballou High School, walked up to the officer and started playing “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” on her phone. Instead of clearing out, as the police officer had demanded that she and the rest of the crowd do, she started dancing the Nae Nae. You can totally see a teen doing this, right?

That officer had a choice: Yell at the teen for being defiant and disrespectful? Go rogue and slam the teen to the ground, South Carolina-style?

Nope. The officer began dancing, too, matching Aaliyah move for move. It was a hilarious, uplifting and refreshing 56 seconds of video that immediately went viral.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/loca...9ea4fa-7e2a-11e5-afce-2afd1d3eb896_story.html

Video at link.
 
Yup. It's not to escalate situations into something that ends in someone's death for no good reason.
 
I knew what you meant. I just thought that the social commentary was more important.
 
I don't condone this behaviour.

Somebody has to speak out against portrait aspect ratio video. If we just allow it to go on, accept it, when will it ever stop?
 
Metaphor said:
I don't condone this behaviour.

Somebody has to speak out against portrait aspect ratio video. If we just allow it to go on, accept it, when will it ever stop?
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True. We should modify all the state laws against citizens video-ing police officers. Then, just allow landscape aspect ratio videos of police.
 
Hindsight is always 20/20, but perhaps if Officer Darren Wilson had just engaged Michael Brown in a little friendly breakdancing or rap competition, the country would be in a much better place now. Who knows, maybe even a friendly game of Angry Birds or Tetris could have defused the situation.
 
If George Zimmerman instead of chasing Trayvon with a gun, tried moonwalking after him, he'd have tripped and fell to the ground anyway.

If Michael Dunn, instead of yelling at the kids for their loud black music and then getting out his gun, started trying to rap with them, they would have probably turned off the music, sped off, and hit someone with their vehicle.

So creative solutions to not being a jerk with a gun, don't really work?
 
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