RCMP dad busts a move in after-school dance party video
A video of a uniformed Alberta RCMP officer dancing with his nine-year-old son to a rap song is getting a lot of attention on Facebook.
As of Thursday morning, the video of Const. Robert Hynes busting a move with his boy, Kempton, had been viewed more than 95,000 times.
After-school dance parties have become a regular event in the family household since Const. Hynes was transferred by the RCMP to the Barrhead, Alta. detachment.
He says dancing has been a great distraction for Kempton and his little sister, Jessa.
"They're going to different school, one where there's probably double the amount of students ... so it's a much bigger school and it's kind of hard to make those friends that have already been living here in the community," he said.
"Even though they're used to the school now, it's a new grade, it's a new classroom, new set of classmates so, [there are] still struggles."
His wife, Lori, says although the are still "lots of tears,"the dance parties have really lifted her children's spirits.
Hynes says she posted a second video of her husband and daughter on YouTube last November to send a positive message to Mountie families dealing with relocation.
But where did this Alberta RCMP officer learn those sweet moves?
"I was blessed to go to a high school where we had a production every year and all the students got together and created our own choreography and we had a live band and we performed the songs," he said.
"So yeah, it's kind of in me."
The father and son were filmed shaking it on their backyard deck to the song Watch Me by American rapper Silentó.
