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Video of dancing Virginia deputy goes viral

By The Associated Press

STAFFORD, Va. (AP) — A Virginia sheriff’s deputy recently performed a dance routine with high school students, and now the video of his performance is getting a lot of attention.

Media outlets report that Deuntay Diggs, a second lieutenant for the Stafford County Sheriff’s Office, performed his rendition of Beyonce’s “Formation” during a pep rally Friday at North Stafford High School.

Diggs says the school reached out to him about dancing through his fiance, teacher Benjamin Leitner.

Diggs almost didn’t perform after learning days before the pep rally that his mother had been diagnosed with cancer. He changed his mind, however, when his mother told him to “keep on dancing.”

The video of Diggs’ performance has since gone viral online. Diggs says he hopes to use his newfound fame to help build a relationship between police and the communities they serve.

Amid controversy over memorials, group vows more Confederate battle flags along Va. highways

By Max Smith
WASHINGTON — A Virginia group that puts up oversized Confederate battle flags on private property along highways across the state said it plans to install even more of them in response to an effort in Stafford County to get the flags that opponents call racist taken down. “The Va. Flaggers have no plans to remove any of our 26 Roadside Memorial Battle Flags across the Commonwealth, including the Fredericksburg Memorial Battle Flag on I-95 in Stafford County,” the Virginia Flaggers' spokesman Barry Isenhour said in a email statement provided to WTOP. “In fact, in light of the recent attempts by the Governor and a few local politicians to encourage the destruction of Confederate Memorials, we intend to fast track the installation of several new projects in the next few months.”
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