--- title: Video: Kansas City Police Dance Off description: Viral video shows Kansas City Police Officer busting out his best moves in a dance off with kids in the area. canonical: https://time.com/3111392/kansas-city-police-officer-dance-off-with-kids-video/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-14T15:49:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:28.252Z og:title: WATCH: Kansas City Police Officer Starts a Dance-Off With Kids og:description: He tries to hold his own in this adorable video og:url: https://time.com/3111392/kansas-city-police-officer-dance-off-with-kids-video/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae209d2afd12309f/69869f82e53aba779c4d3fef/kansas-city-police-dance-off.png?branch=production&width=376&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 376 og:image:height: 212 og:image:alt: kansas-city-police-dance-off og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: WATCH: Kansas City Police Officer Starts a Dance-Off With Kids twitter:description: He tries to hold his own in this adorable video twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae209d2afd12309f/69869f82e53aba779c4d3fef/kansas-city-police-dance-off.png?branch=production&width=376&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Kansas City Cop Starts a Dance-Off With Kids by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 14, 2014 3:49 PM UTC  by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## Melissa Locker Aug 14, 2014 3:49 PM UTC Out of Kansas City, Missouri, comes a video of a police officer busting a move with some of the local kids in an eastern Kansas City neighborhood. [NBC News affiliate KSHB reports ](http://www.kshb.com/news/local-news/kansas-city-mo-police-officer-dances-in-the-street-with-local-kids)that after officer Jeffrey Krebs spent Sunday morning dancing in his patrol car, his partner offered Jolly Rancher candy to some kids in the neighborhood if they would throw down their best moves in a dance-off with the officer. The kids and Krebs delivered, each offering up some moves, including one Krebs dubbed “The Octopus” (which the unseen camera operator reacts to with a quiet “Oof.”) Krebs told KSHB he hopes the friendly competition will help him work better with the community in the long run: “I feel like if we build rapport with them, then they’re more likely to call us when they need us.” **MORE**: [Mark Zuckerberg Accepts Chris Christie’s Ice Bucket Challenge](http://time.com/3110357/mark-zuckerberg-chris-christie-als-ice-bucket-challenge-bill-gates-sheryl-sandberg-netflix-facebook/) **MORE**: [In Ferguson, It’s Now Guns Vs. Cameras](http://time.com/3111133/ferguson-journalists-arrested-police-media/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3111392/kansas-city-police-officer-dance-off-with-kids-video/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3111392/kansas-city-police-officer-dance-off-with-kids-video/"},"headline":"Kansas City Cop Starts a Dance-Off With Kids","datePublished":"2014-08-14T15:49:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:28.252Z","description":"Watch him try to hold his own in this adorable video","url":"https://time.com/3111392/kansas-city-police-officer-dance-off-with-kids-video/","keywords":["Newsfeed","viral","nation","police","kids","Videos","Community","Viral Videos"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae209d2afd12309f/69869f82e53aba779c4d3fef/kansas-city-police-dance-off.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltae209d2afd12309f/69869f82e53aba779c4d3fef/kansas-city-police-dance-off.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"kansas-city-police-dance-off","caption":"kansas-city-police-dance-off","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3111392/kansas-city-police-officer-dance-off-with-kids-video/","name":"Kansas City Cop Starts a Dance-Off With Kids"}}]}] ```