Police use pepper spray to stop haka dance at high school game

[ms_maree]

Police in a small Utah town are being accused of overreacting after using pepper spray to break up a group of Polynesian men and boys performing a haka after a high school football game.The police action came after a pair of officers unsuccessfully attempted to disperse the dozen or so performers who were blocking an exit after the Union-Uintah

Comments

[shadowesque13]

If you're going to do a dance, tell the police so they don't pepper spray you? That is so much bullshit.

[ms_maree]

Seems about right.

[gangsterdorothy]

my first thought

[popehippo]

Footloose reference in 3... 2... 1...

[iolarah]

Actually, having watched the recording below, I was thinking of a really badass "West Side Story". The guys seem far too in sync for it to be a fight thing--it's intense, but it's dance for sure.

[jamethiel_bane]

... wow. Guilty of dancing while being brown, maybe?

[chaya]

The new DWB.

[livetuned]

Fuuuuuck youuuu.

[livetuned]

Oh and this is directed to those shitty police, not OP. D:

[ms_maree]

No prob, I guessed as much ;)

[zharia]

NGL, If I had no idea what a haka was (what up, fellow Rugby players!) it would freak me the fuck out if some guys randomly started doing one in the middle of the crowd. They can be TERRIFYING! That's the POINT!

AMAZING.

[zharia]

Re: AMAZING.

[poetic_scribe]

I'd never heard of the Haka before this post. But I must say it looks AWESOME!