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

Oct 24, 2011 08:55

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 ( Read more... )

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zharia October 23 2011, 23:25:35 UTC

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 October 23 2011, 23:27:15 UTC

Re: AMAZING. poetic_scribe October 23 2011, 23:50:16 UTC

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

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Re: AMAZING. clevermanka October 24 2011, 14:43:38 UTC

MTE.

Re: AMAZING. roseofjuly October 24 2011, 01:30:47 UTC

Why don't we play this sport in my country? Do want!

Re: AMAZING. riath October 24 2011, 08:24:02 UTC

The US does have a team! They played in the World Cup in the pool stages but didn't make it to the quarter-finals. I watched their match against Russia and they're not bad.

Re: AMAZING. roseofjuly October 24 2011, 16:48:11 UTC

Ah, I love international sports. Especially ones that involve muscular men in tight shorts.

Re: AMAZING. webbgirl October 24 2011, 02:32:34 UTC

And this is one of the many reasons I love me some Rugby.

Given the number of Polynesians who live in Utah, I would think there would be some sort of awareness on the police's part, but I'm going to guess that they skip over that "brown" cultural stuff in their training and go straight to "pepper spray anything different". Ugh.

Re: AMAZING. origamicage October 24 2011, 04:14:54 UTC

Yeah, I live in Utah, and at almost every school talent show I've gone to they've had the haka.

Re: AMAZING. riath October 24 2011, 08:26:03 UTC

I got up early (early for a Sunday anyway) and watched the match. Nail-biting but oh so good. Thrilled that New Zealand won!

I did wonder which haka they would do beforehand though, there's two they do. Ka Mate and Kapa O Pango (which is the one in the video).

Re: AMAZING. kaisenji October 24 2011, 16:32:04 UTC

OH YEAH MY BOYS THE ALL BLACKS!!

Re: AMAZING. ultra_obscene84 October 25 2011, 06:39:50 UTC

The All Blacks <3.

I want to do unmentionable things to Hosea Gear. /hides away/

ms_maree October 23 2011, 23:30:17 UTC

Yeah but in this, everyone told the police it was okay - and looking at the video in the source I don't think it was threatening, nobody was running away screaming ;)

Are you celebrating today with the kiwi win?

thepuddingcook October 24 2011, 00:07:28 UTC

THIS. No one was complaining about omgz the scary dance.

chaya October 24 2011, 00:13:08 UTC

"I don't feel saaaaaafe!"

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