What…cops can’t have fun on their job? People are too uptight lol

R-O-C-K in the USA!!!

Isn’t wonderful to see the people we empower to keep law and order not letting the power and responsibilities get the best of them?  I didn’t see anyone in that video who wasn’t having a good time!! This should be a training video at the police academy on community relations!

What’s the problem?

I actually think it’s positive.  It’s not like the men were enticing the women to dance lewdly.  They stood there.  They smiled and got into it a little bit.  We seldom see any “positive” interaction between police and Black people, so this is not worthy of an investigation  as much as it is a lesson in cultural sensitivity.  Not being West Indian, I’m not prone to do anything like that in a parade, but I imagine Mardi Gras and Carnivals are the same everywhere: bawdy, raunchy, and goodhearted fun. Sure, they wouldn’t have done this in the 1950s. Times have changed.  Police like hiphop as much as everyone else, they dance, and get merry with everybody.  It’s not worth the time.  If there’s any one who needs investigation, it’s the women who would be that bold to do that to an officer!! But, like I said, it’s all in good fun.  I actually believe the police did a good thing, considering, the impromptu circumstance in which they found themselves. 

It is obviously a new definition for “community policing.”  

With so many states taking the right to collectivly bargain away from police and their unions are we really going to end any and all perks that may arrise from the job?  I mean these police are doing a hard job or are they doing a job hard?  No matter, no harm, no foul and this is just another fine example of community policing.

I think they should obviously be fired for … having fun.

Jon: It’s good to learn that unlike some others in the blogging community, you’re not a total prude.

Of course they could have arrested the women for assaulting a police officer which would have resulted in a riot. Instead they had a light moment with the crowd showing both sides ” can all get along” . Give it rest.

Ok! Did the cops KNOW they were being video taped? Otherwise, FUN is just that, BUT a police officer is supposed to be doing WHAT? I suppose because they were doing a little dancing, you would also that a beer wouldn’t be outta the question either, cuz it would be RUDE for them to REFUSE?

I thought it was damned funny.  What’s the harm?

Official Transcript from the NYPD Investigation.

Conversation overheard behind officers:

“Oh my god.  Becky,look at her butt.  It is so big.  She looks like one of those rap guys girlfriends. But you know, who understands those rap guys?  They only talk to her, because, she looks like a total prostitute, ‘kay.  I mean, her butt, is just so big. I can’t believe it’s just so round, it’s out there, I mean -gross.  Look!  She’s just so…black!”

Officer responds:

“I like big butts and I can not lie. You other brothers can’t deny that when a girl walks in with an itty bitty waist and a round thing in your face you get SPRUNG!”

Right on brother

I tell ya, it’s those damn steroids!

It’s not their fault.

Just cut down on the steroids.

Everything will be honky dory.

Looks like NYPD ‘community organizing’ to me.

Nothing to it.

That’s parade participants grinding on the cops, and everyone there was having fun.

GREAT POINT…a thinking outside the box training tool!

Here is a nontroversy if there every was one. This was mutual grinding, who cares. Why doesn’t Mediaite ever do a story on caught on camera police brutality which happens all the time?

New York City cops NOT beating black people — guess that’s news.  A reprimand and a remedial lesson in proper police conduct would be a measured and appropriate response.

Typical of those lazy union workers to stand around and not do any work on our dime. Right, baggers?

Typical of those lazy union workers to stand around and not do any work on our dime. Right, baggers?

yep, you got it.

Is that your night stick or are you just excitable?

At least you’re consistent.

Spending taxpayer money on an investigation is more of a scandal than the dancing. Investigate the investigators and those who called for it.

Absolutely.  They’ll only find out it is another officer who purports to have family values, but who was secretly dating one of the dancers and got jealous…. some real nonsense that goes on all of the time that conservatives attempt to deny all of the time. We’re human, right? I think it’s a positive thing, believe it or not. 

Seems like good community relations to me.

Meanwhile, picking the familiar bone: Don’t you have ANYONE literate looking over stuff before it goes up?  For fvcks sake, it is the “tenor of the event”, not “tenure of the event”.  I have to assume that some of you went to J-school, didn’t you?  I am pretty sure the curriculum includes English and editing.  Mediaite is constantly filled with embarrassingly bad mistakes of spelling, homophones, and word usage you would expect from a junior-high student.  I love you guys, but you need to tighten up on the editing.

Gee black people not afraid of cops.  Gee cops not afraid of black people.  BREAKING NEWS!!!  What a total non-starter for everyone.  If these guys are reprimanded for this I’m officially joining the Tea Party because I want government out of my life as well.  OK maybe I won’t take it that far but you get my point.

That would be community policing.  When Obama does that in Chicago, then it’s community organizing.

That would be community policing.  When Obama does that in Chicago, then it’s community organizing.

Sorry I don’t agree and think the cops should have laughed it off while backing away. Inappropriate but not a matter to spend money investigating. Not even reprimanded. Just the supervisor saying don’t do it again it doesn’t’ make us look great.

Ah, another case of prejudice.  Let them dance and don’t insert your thoughts into their heads.

I’m not talking about the officers.  I’m talking about those who are outraged enough to suggest an investigation.  My point was irony that no one has any monopoly on morals, as Republicans have proven time and time again.  They say one thing, but they do what everyone else does.  We’re human.  This was a human incident.