# Cop performs barrel roll.  Hilarious.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-performs-barrel-roll-hilarious/722114>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [June 10, 2015, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-performs-barrel-roll-hilarious/722114 "2015-06-10T00:08:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 6\
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**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-performs-barrel-roll-hilarious/722114/21 "2015-06-10T17:04:16Z")

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> [@UncleRojelio](#):
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> [The officer in question has resigned](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/mckinney-pool-party-cop-resigns-following-public-outcry/)after the chief called his actions indefensible.

I kinda figured a job where you were allowed to tackle young, bikini clad women and wrestle them to the ground had to have a down side.

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**Author:** ![MeanOldLady](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/meanoldlady/32/10737_2.png) [@MeanOldLady](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeanOldLady)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-performs-barrel-roll-hilarious/722114/22 "2015-06-10T17:28:38Z")

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> [@UncleRojelio](#):
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> [The officer in question has resigned](http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/mckinney-pool-party-cop-resigns-following-public-outcry/)after the chief called his actions indefensible.

The barrel roll?

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**Author:** ![UncleRojelio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unclerojelio/32/3160_2.png) [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)\
**Post date:** [June 10, 2015, 5:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-performs-barrel-roll-hilarious/722114/23 "2015-06-10T17:31:14Z")

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> [@MeanOldLady](#):
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> The barrel roll?

It was a pretty poorly executed barrel roll.

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-performs-barrel-roll-hilarious/722114/24 "2015-06-11T01:29:59Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Because when somebody falls down for no apparent reason, you just assume they didn’t do it intentionally. [Cite](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OibwTjJZbIM)

But the video just showed him intentionally rolling, it didn’t show him falling down.

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**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-performs-barrel-roll-hilarious/722114/25 "2015-06-11T02:33:48Z")

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> [@Ambivalid](#):
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> But the video just showed him intentionally rolling, it didn’t show him falling down.

Could you be clear on what you think happened? Do you think that the cop was running and decided to intentionally drop to the ground? Or do you think that the cop was running and unintentionally fell to the ground?

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**Author:** ![Happy\_Lendervedder](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/happy_lendervedder/32/8488_2.png) [@Happy\_Lendervedder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Lendervedder)\
**Post date:** [June 11, 2015, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cop-performs-barrel-roll-hilarious/722114/26 "2015-06-11T04:08:23Z")

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> [@Little\_Nemo](#):
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> Could you be clear on what you think happened? Do you think that the cop was running and decided to intentionally drop to the ground? Or do you think that the cop was running and unintentionally fell to the ground?

If you listen to the video closely, you can hear the cop yell “Hit the lights!”

[It’s a classic mad scramble technique.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8X0GEbK93g) First-year detective school kind of stuff, actually.

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