{"id":242154,"date":"2016-05-07T16:07:42","date_gmt":"2016-05-07T16:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/runningmanchallenge-london-police-post-quick-footed-response-to-cop-dance-craze-video\/"},"modified":"2016-05-07T16:07:42","modified_gmt":"2016-05-07T16:07:42","slug":"runningmanchallenge-london-police-post-quick-footed-response-to-cop-dance-craze-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/runningmanchallenge-london-police-post-quick-footed-response-to-cop-dance-craze-video\/","title":{"rendered":"#RunningManChallenge: London police post quick-footed response to cop dance craze (VIDEO)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Metropolitan Police are the latest to throw their hats into the dance-off ring in response to challenge posted by Scottish cops.<\/p>\n

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The team accepted the Scotland Police challenge and pulled out all the stops in an attempt to out-do the crew that started the international dance battle – the New Zealand Police.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For backup, Met officer trainees enlisted their fleet of flashing police vehicles to add some pizazz to the performance.<\/p>\n

The viral dance craze spread into the police force when New Zealand officers, as a recruitment drive attempt, posted a video of their efforts to Facebook – and challenged neighboring Australian officers to do the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The NZ officers\u2019 fancy footwork video has been viewed almost 9 million times, with over 90,000 shares, sparking a worldwide \u201crunning man\u201d challenge – based on the dance move made famous by Janet Jackson in the 1980s – among police forces.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The craze has reached international proportions, with officers from Australia, the US and Scotland rising to the challenge by showing off their moves.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The only question is: who will be next to step up to the plate?<\/p>\n

READ MORE: 1st Soviet break-dancers from ’80s hit the floor again (VIDEO)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Metropolitan Police are the latest to throw their hats into the dance-off ring in response to challenge posted by Scottish cops. The team accepted the Scotland Police challenge and pulled out all the stops in an attempt to out-do the crew that started the international dance battle – the New Zealand Police.\u00a0 For backup, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":242155,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-242154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=242154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}