They could have push them off in anger and threaten to arrest, then the headlines would have read racist cops at the parade- give these guys a break- it's a westindian culture to wind and grind as a form of dance. for once there was no color lines praise god for that!!! period!

It was stupid but not criminal...they definitely lacked good judgment.... I'd give them a stern verbal reprimand but that's it...

they're just having fun

I agree with RammieH - I don't think the guy was being disrespectful - those girls targeted a cute white boy and it was all in good fun.  If it was St Paddy's day or Mardi Gras with drunk girls yelling Wooo and flashing boobs nothing would happen...

Look at it - everyone is laughing, and having a nice time thinking "look at the white cop dance" or whatever.

True, someone could have grabbed his gun, so he probably should have kept his hands on his firearms, but overall, no harm, no foul.

All I have to say is "Go White Boy! Go White Boy!"

Some white cops finally getting along with brown people and we're gonna suspend them?  *facepalm*

Seriously though, they are like a pair of pants on the floor and a Bon Jovi song away from gettin' Rapy with it!

My impression of Gothamist commentors:

DERRR I wish the cops weren't so unprofessional DERRR lets take this lapdance out to the street DERRR I've never held a real job or had any understanding of organizational discipline but I trust my life to these jackoffs DERRR theres no correlation between the shit job they do, and the shit job they do 

Nothing wrong with what these cops did. They got into the flavor of the community which is what they should always do. The dancing cops were acting fine while their buddies were beating up councilmen. Leave these cops alone or better yet promote them.

I don't always dance around with my gun on my waist around 100's of people but when I do, I do it when I'm working on tax payers money and making sure the parade is safe and call it 'community bounding'.

What is bounding? Are you making a joke or are you just slightly slow?

more video snitches for something that does need it, like the pictures of the mta smokers

I'd hate to be this guy's wife or girlfriend right now. What a j.o.

You can take the cop out of Brooklyn...

Yeah, better this than raping drunk girls, shoving broomsticks up detainees' asses, or shooting people who are trying to show them identification.

Why does it have to be either/or? Why not just do their jobs without embarrassing themselves or the department? Have our expectations sunk so low that we're completely happy with cops as long as they don't commit crimes? If that's the case, we should change their nickname from "New York's Finest" to "New York's Could Have Been Worse."

They are cops working a festive parade ground.  They are not the Color Guard burying a fallen soldier at Arlington.  Or Marine sentries stationed outside an embassy.  Or Counter-terrorist cops with the machine guns at Ground Zero.

These are routine cops working a parade.  Do people not say hi or give a nod to cops walking a beat or standing on a corner?  Do not people occasional just talk about the weather or mention last night's game to the local cops on a beat?

Christ on a cracker - I would've thought any positive harmless interaction between the community and the police would be a plus.

Is it the "daggering" that's freaking people out?  Because I think if it was St Paddy's Day and  an Irish dancer came up to a cop and the cop busted out a few shitty Riverdance moves, no one would give a shit.

I didn't say it was ideal. Read my comment again, I said it was "better than." The NYPD has a LONG WAY to go to get my respect and confidence back. "Investigating" these cops' behavior is a waste of time. They have much bigger fish to fry when it comes to bad behavior.

Cops get in trouble for dancing, but not for shooting innocent bystanders. America...

yep not for issuing fake summons and for false arrests but for dancing? wth??

Hey at least they weren't raping anyone....that looked consensual to me - no foul - good cop gets donut