Shocking footage captured the moment a chaotic scene unfolded in Hooters as two female police officers struggled to detain an unruly customer before a patron stepped in to save them.
The chaotic video shows a lightweight hispanic man flailing around and shouting as two female police officers from the Greensboro Police Department in North Carolinafailed to subdue him.
The wild-eyed customer, who has not been identified, pulls away from the officers and resists their attempts to pin him to the floor all while grinning. The man recording the video can be heard saying, ‘he’s not even trying.’
Eventually, a larger customer steps in and one of the officers says, ‘can you get him on the ground?’ He then quickly takes control of the situation and shoves the fiend to the floor in less than five seconds.
As he pins the customer to the ground, the man recording says, ‘well the cops can’t do their jobs. They cannot subdue a 140lb hispanic man, but that guy did.’
The video has been making the rounds on social media as it ignited debate over the strength necessary to police dangerous situations.
‘In the push for diversity, many agencies forbid pairing based on gender or physical risk. On paper, it sounds noble,’ wrote a user on X, who reposted the video on Sunday and received almost six million views.
‘But on the street? Operational safety comes first. If policies leave officers outmatched and prolong and unsafe confrontations, then the policy, not the public, is what needs fixing.’
A chaotic scene in Hooters unfolded earlier this month as two female police officers struggled to detain a lightweight man
Video of the altercation showsa large man step in and one of the officers saying, ‘can you get him on the ground?’
That X post was later retweeted by conservative media pundit and author Ann Coulter, who took the debate further as she questioned if the women should have even been on the force.
‘I think the problem goes back a little further than the “pairing” policy,’ Coulter wrote.
‘I thought hulking men in girls sports had finally forced conservatives to admit – even if feminist yelled at them — that girls aren’t as big, as fast, or as strong as men. Maybe they shouldn’t be cops.’
Commenters across social media sites expressed similar sentiments.
‘Ridiculous. This puts the officers in serious danger all the time,’ wrote one user on X.
‘DEI at its finest,’ commented another user under a post of the video on Instagram.
‘Over all there will always be a man that is stronger than a woman. Its just called biology. I don’t care if you disagree,’ wrote a third user on Facebook.
The larger customer quickly takes control of the situation and gets the unruly patron on the floor in less than five seconds
The video has been floating around since September 7 when it was posted by an artist with the handle Shocksart on TikTok.
Reactions to the video are part of a larger political conversation about the validity of DEI initiatives.
Some of the first executive orders signed by President Trump when he began his term were DEI policy rollbacks.
The ordersestablished a federal policy of recognizing only two genders, ceased virtually all DEI-related activities in the federal workforce, and rescinded several DEI-related executive orders issued by prior administrations, according to the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance.
The orders also directed Attorney General Pam Bondi to identify private companies with ‘egregious and discriminatory’ DEI programs.
