When Aaliyah Taylor posted a video of her dance-off with a Metro Police Department officer in Southwest D.C., she had no idea it would be so popular.

“It went everywhere,” Taylor says. “I was so shocked.”

The dance-off began when two groups of teens were arguing and the police came to break them up. “I started dancing towards the cop and she said, ‘You know I can dance, too,’ and that’s when everyone started recording.”

Taylor attributes the video’s viral success (it’s already been viewed more than 600,000 times on Facebook) to its positivity. “You usually don’t see cops dancing around with all of these incidents and abuse,” she says. “A cop dancing with me shows there are some good cops out there.”

This comes at a time when D.C. police are smarting from a far less flattering viral video—the detention of Jason Goolsby.

MPD has confirmed that the other woman in the video is indeed one of its officers, but would not release further information about her. When the Washington Post reached her by phone, the officer asked not to be identified so that the story wouldn’t be about her. Chief Cathy Lanier released a statement calling the video, “indicative of the interactions that occur everyday throughout the city.” Since then, MPD has been touting the dance-off and pushing it on its Youtube page.

Taylor, a 17-year-old senior at Ballou High School, says the incident has altered her perspective on the MPD.

“I basically thought it was only bad cops,” she says. “When she danced with me, it changed my mind. Some cops are abusing their power but some are doing their jobs and some are actually being entertaining while they’re doing their job.”

There’s at least one issue that remains contentious, though—the winner of the dance-off. “I think that I won,” Taylor says, “But we both decided it was a tie.”