Basketball Cop

Basketball Cop

Good cop, bad cop. A police officer always has a choice on how to react to a given situation, they can affect this situation in a positive or negative way. Police officers will hopefully follow the law and abide by the rules they are sworn to, or they can allow their personal beliefs and opinions to take command of how they react. In this particular situation, Officer White reacted to a certain situation in a positive way and in a way we see fitting to the law. Could the boys playing on the street really have been causing so much noise that a neighbor had to call the police to get them to stop? Possibly, but playing a game of basketball is not a crime especially not in the middle of the day. This video is inspiring due to how the officer reacted to the situation, but also because this Caucasian male police officer didn’t put a label on kids that were African-American. This video sparked a movement that is now known as the Basketball Cop Foundation. https://www.basketballcop.net/ To me, and with the view we have on society, the main reason I feel this video went viral and had an impact was because of the communion of two different communities. Videos that go viral about a cop mistreating someone come and go, primarily because there are so many of them. This video was different, it was recorded on the officer’s dash cam making the video feel authentic. We know it wasn’t staged, and we see how people can communicate with each other in positive ways. Since society viewed the video as an inspiration people started to feel involved and wanted to get involved to make the place we live better for everyone. Since they foundation started there have been many contributions and plans for bettering that specific community. https://www.opslens.com/2018/02/24/basketball-cop-foundation-police-heroics-hoops/