Amana Images/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — One New York City police officer may want to trade in his uniform for a basketball jersey.
Officer Garthlette James was on duty Friday in the NYPD’s 50th precinct, which covers several neighborhoods in the Bronx, when he stopped in front of a basketball court, a now-viral video shows.
He then asks for a ball to attempt a seemingly impossible shot from outside the basketball court.
“We’re going to make it. Trust,” he says in the video to naysayers.
After three dribbles, the 29-year-old officer fires off the shot from the sidewalk — and it goes in.
Cheers erupt from the court, the video depicts.
The officer, who has been with the department more than five years, celebrated with a huge grin.
See the shot in the video below.
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