Stop Play! Stop Play!

Of course, this only works if everyone is on the same page:

• Indianapolis - A Metro police officer is on desk duty after being injured while breaking up a staged fight.

  The officer was invited to give a presentation to a church group at Municipal Gardens. Sometime during his talk, two men started to argue in the back of the room. The officer tried to break it up and was thrown to the ground.

  "First, it was verbal, then it became physical and the officer doing his duty went to intervene," said FOP President Sgt. William Owensby.

  The officer had been asked to teach a lesson on dealing with the police.

  "When I first heard it, I thought, 'That is too stupid to be true. There is no way someone is that stupid to stage something like that'," said Sgt. Owensby.

  It was a staged fight, one to gauge how a police officer would react. The problem, the police department did not stage the fight, they say a minister from the Mt. Vernon Community Missionary Baptist Church did.

This is about the dumbest stunt we've ever heard of. Imagine how much dumber it would have been if the officer used a baton, or a Taser or better yet, shot one the play actors. Or shot the dumbass "reverend" staging this whole event.

How about instead of working at cross purposes trying to be slick, you work with the police to educate the community. Or would that be too simple?