Viral ‘Basketball Cop’ Caught Beating Young Man Over Bicycle Infraction
Officer Bobby White became an online sensation in 2016 - up to and including being memed by Police the Police - for exposure to a 911 call a few noisy basketball and selecting compassion over escalation. In 2016, officer White skilled an event after a neighbor called 911 to report kids playing basketball. When White showed up, he noticed there was no reason for him to be there and rather than writing tickets, stopping and frisking, or beating and arresting the youngsters , White asked if he could play ball. "Can you think that somebody called complaining that youngsters are playing basketball within the street?" Mr. White asks within the video recorded on his dashboard camera. "But I ain't got no problems with it." With his dashcam rolling the whole time, White's community policing was recorded then uploaded by the...