Officer responds to noise complaint (STORY & VIDEOS)
Epic cop responds to noise complaint call…
Pizza party and dance-off ensues!
NEW BRITAIN, CT – New Britain Police Officer Matthew Sulek in Connecticut is doing everything he can to bring his community together, one dance move at a time. A video showing the dancing officer has received millions of views online.
26-year-old New Britain Police Officer Matthew Sulek says, “Don’t stop the music!”
Sulek has been a New Britain officer for 1 1/2 years and an officer for more than four years.
After the video went viral, Sulek said he was driving through a Walgreens parking lot when he happened upon a group of teenagers enjoying loud music in the parking lot.
Sulek described the night of the now famous incident saying, “They immediately turned (their music) right down.” The 26-year-old officer said he wasn’t about to stop the fun. “I noticed that they did that and I said, ‘No way man turn that back up. Let’s just enjoy life with each other!'”
But this isn’t the first video starring the officer that has gone viral.
Last year, a different video showing Sulek dancing with a teen during a car show reached millions of delighted viewers on Facebook. (See other dancing video below.)
“We’ve gotten such a bad rap, it’s good to show positivity,” Sulek said about police officers. “We’re human and that’s what makes us who we are.”
Sulek later said the best part of the dance-off is what the teens said about him at the end of the now-viral video.
“That just goes to prove that all cops are not the same,” one of the teens in the video can be heard saying. “Stop blaming all cops for cruelty in this…world.”
“I found that two of them want to be a police officer,” Sulek later recalled.
Sulek said, “If dancing helps the community come together, then please…don’t stop the music.”
“There’s way of being a cop and there’s way of being a police officer, that’s how to be a police officer,” Sulek said.
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Trevor Montgomery spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg in an off-duty accident.
During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations, including the Robert Presley Detention Center, the Southwest Station in Temecula, the Hemet Station, and the Lake Elsinore Station, along with many other locations.
Trevor’s assignments included Corrections, Patrol, DUI Enforcement, Boat and Personal Water-Craft based Lake Patrol, Off-Road Vehicle Enforcement, Problem Oriented Policing Team, Personnel and Background Investigations and he finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator.
Trevor has been married for more than 26 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and has 13 children and 12 – soon to be 13 – grandchildren.