Police body camera captures men rehearsing wedding dance routine

[This screenshot shows a group of men dancing in front of a Texas police officer in preparation for a wedding performance. Carroll Texas Police Department/YouTube]

A police body camera video is getting attention on social media, but this time it’s for all the right reasons. Instead of depicting a crime or questionable policing, this clip posted on YouTube features a group of men working on a dance routine for an upcoming wedding.

Sgt. Todd Burnside of the Carrollton Police Department in Texas was responding to a noise complaint when the video was captured. In the clip posted online on Oct. 12, you can see him arrive at the scene and approach a group of young men standing in a parking lot next to a parked car.

“You guys having a party or something?” the officer asks as he approaches.

“We’re having a dance practice,” responds one of the men.

At first, the officer assumes they are some sort of dance posse and asks for the group’s name. The men all giggle and then explain that they’re rehearsing a dance routine to perform at the wedding of a man named David Opegbemi.

“It’s my wedding,” Opegbemi says cheerfully.

“Would you like to see some of it?” another man asks Burnside.

“Yeah, I kind of would, actually,” the sergeant responds.

The men turn up the music from the nearby car before performing a dance routine to the song “My Girl” by The Temptations.

The group ends their performance with some laughs and the officer wishes them all well with the upcoming wedding.

The video was posted onto the police department’s Facebook page, where it received more than 220,000 likes in less than a week along with some positive comments.

One of those comments was from the groom-to-be.

“It sends a positive message to the world that one: black men don’t always need to be perceived as someone dangerous,” Opegbemi wrote. “We are doctors, lawyers, accountants, business owners, and educators in our communities.

“We all can coexist respectfully and safely in this country.”

He was also kind enough to share a video of the full dance routine being performed at his wedding with ABC-affiliate WFAA-TV in Dallas, which has already attracted more than 139,000 views on Facebook since being published on Oct. 13.