@DCPoliceDept officers join a pick up football game in #Snowzilla2016. #blizzard2016 @capitalweather pic.twitter.com/svRD41I1ua
— Katie Tilley (@kbtilley) January 23, 2016
After watching one Gainesville officer dunk all over some kids playing basketball in the street in Florida, Snowmageddon 2016 has now brought us a few officers joining a neighborhood snow football game before continuing their patrol in Washington, D.C. And boy how they dominated.
Watch the one cop who takes a pass and gives another skinny guy the stiff-arm of a lifetime on his way to the end zone. He launched him two feet away! It’s hard to tell for sure if the would-be tackler is a cop or not, he’s too covered in snow when he gets up to see a badge. We’re hoping he’s not because otherwise he’ll never hear the end of it down at the station after that missed tackle.
It’s hard not to argue that 2015 was a rough year for police in the media. But fun, local community policing like this goes a long way towards getting faces seen in the community and trust between citizens and officers. So far in 2016, local police officers across America seem to be getting back in the their communities’ good graces through dominating them in pick-up games. Here’s hoping there’s a few more cops out there willing to posterize the the people they’re paid to protect because we can’t get enough of it.
(via Sporting News)
