Month: November 2015

DC Police Officer Challenges Unruly Teen To Danceoff 

  
Via Fox 5 DC– It all started with a fight between two groups of teenagers. In the end, it turned into a dance-off between a D.C. high school student and a D.C. police officer that helped defuse a tense situation.

According to the Washington Post, the fight happened Monday afternoon on K Street in Southwest D.C. and was broken up by officers. A few minutes later, a female officer arrived to disperse the crowd that was still hanging around the area.

Aaliyah Taylor, a 17-year-old student at Ballou High School, walked up to that officer and started dancing to “Watch Me (Whip/Nae Nae)” that was playing on her phone.

What happened next was an epic dance battle that helped lighten the mood and eventually got everyone to leave the area afterwards.

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

The Washington Post reports the dancing officer has been with the Metropolitan Police Department for about three years and recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.

I must say its kind of refreshing to see this officer using a different tactic– other than force– to fight crime, and the kids seemed receptive to it. Right on.

Read more and see the video of the now infamous “dancing officer”. 

9 Yr Old Chicago Boy Body Found In Alley; Possible Gang Retaliation 

There is a $20,000 reward in the murder of a 9-year-old on the city’s south side.

According to ABC Reports: 

Police investigating the fatal shooting of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee in a South Side alley believe that the boy was targeted as part of an ongoing gang feud involving his relatives.

Police said they believe the child’s father has information about the possible retaliation, but is not being forthcoming.

Meanwhile, Tyshawn’s mother, Karla Lee, has made tearful public pleas for help in solving her son’s murder.

Police are still unclear about a motive and have not ruled out retaliation. His family said he was a great kid who was in the wrong place at the wrong time.

A $20,000 reward, raised by community groups, is offered for information leading to an arrest in the shooting.

Tyshawn was fatally shot in an alley near his grandmother’s home in the 8000-block of South Damen Avenue in the city’s Gresham neighborhood around 4:15 p.m. Monday.

Tyshawn’s basketball was found next to his dead body. Family members said he loved basketball and brought his ball everywhere he went.

Police said an unknown number of people were gathered in the alley when an argument led to gunfire. Tyshawn was shot several times in the upper body, including in the head and back.

An autopsy Tuesday determined that the boy died of multiple gunshot wounds, according to the Cook County medical examiner’s office.

Tyshawn’s mother set up a GoFundMe page to raise money to pay for her son’s funeral.

To make a donation, visit www.gofundme.com.

What a horrifying and heartbreaking story. I remember a time when women & kids were off limits. Boy have times changed.

9 Year old Tyshawn and his mother. Photo: Go Fund Me

Rest in peace to this beautiful child. My heart truly goes out to the mother of this young man. 

We must stop gang violence. 

DrugLord ‘Dudus’ Coke Refused To Give Any Information To Police Following Bloody Manhunt Arrest

Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke looks on as JDF officers onspect the cell where he was held at Up Park Detention Center following his 2015 manhunt arrest

Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke wasn’t much help to detectives who wanted to know how he escaped Tivoli Gardens during the May 2010 operation to apprehend him.

Superintendent Michael Phipps, who was being questioned by attorney Peter Champagnie for the Jamaica Defence Force, said that he interviewed Coke on June 23, 2010 at the Up Park Camp following his arrest that same month.

SEE THE VIDEO: Dudus Coke in Custody at Up Park Following Manhunt

Phipps said that he asked Coke how he managed to leave Tivoli Gardens and if he left the community to avoid arrest.

“Same answer. Same ‎answer,” Phipps said Coke responded, meaning that he would not answer the questions on the advice of his attorneys Tom Tavares-Finson and George Soutar, QC.

Coke had also refused to say whether he was dressed in array fatigue on May 24 or 25.

Phipps testified earlier that Coke answered the most basic questions, such as his name and address, among other things, out of a total of 182.

Source | Jamaica Observer