Technology paves a bridge between protestors and police

[intrepidity]

Okay, this is a weird but wonderful story, that just happened on a Livestream from Minneapolis. Not sure which precinct, or even if it was in MN.

So, there's a small group (~25) of protestors across the street, in front of a police station. A couple dozen uniforms are lining the sidewalk in front of their station.

Words are being exchanged. Nothing too confrontational. One officer in particular has stepped out to speak with some of the protestors.

In the meantime, squad cars are blocking both ends of the road, in anticipation... it appears that things might be getting ugly...

Then, the camera focuses in on the conversation between the cop ("Officer Grumpy" ) and a protestor. We don't catch all of it, but the protestor is challenging the cop to give him his phone number. Which he does. On air. While livestreaming (which the officer was apparently not aware of).

Immediately, the officer's phone starts ringing off the hook.

The crowd is cracking up. Presumably, so are the Livestream watchers. The cop seems more amused than annoyed.

He goes back across the street to join his comrades. His phone keeps ringing. Finally, he returns across the street to see what happened. The crowd is laughing, telling him he just broadcast his phone number to thousands of people!

Everyone, on both sides, seems amused by this. Somehow, over the next several minutes, most of the cops have disappeared back into the station. The squad cars blocking the road have disappeared. Traffic flow on the street has resumed. There are groups of protestors mingling with the remaining officers, chatting.

The cameraman goes to explain what happened to the cop, who is himself getting instruction from a protestor about how to put his phone on "airplane mode" so the calls stop.

The whole scene COMPLETELY transformed from a tense standoff to a bunch of folks standing around, talking about their cell phones (or whatever).

AMAZING, and beautiful to watch on this day! Had to share.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

1. We're all human, after all.

[Scarsdale]

2. The protesters need

an articulate spokesperson. The police need to stop viewing EVERY black man as dangerous. We have more to unite us, than to divide us. EXCLUDING the racist-in-chief of course. tRump is the biggest instigator of all. His followers are itching for a race war. This country has more problems than it can handle. Unfortunately, we have a self absorbed clown in the WH who is not equipped in any way to face problems. Look at the mess he made of this virus. So, Moscow Mitch and his merry band of wimps go on vacation, while the country falls apart. Typical republican way of handling a crisis.