Fake Police Standoff Ends in Marriage Proposal

A Friday night arrest turned out to be a life-changing event for a young Mobile, Alabama, couple, but not in the way you’d expect. Shawna Blackmon was waiting for her boyfriend, Daiwon McPherson, to pick her up for a date when she received a phone call telling her he’d been pulled over by police. She knew McPherson was armed, and raced to the scene. All she could think about was one thing. “Me getting out and seeing that I felt like I can fix this, let me try to fix this and let me calm the situation down and let it work,” McPherson said. She quickly ran to McPherson’s side, telling the officers not to shoot. That’s when things changed in the blink of an eye. McPherson dropped to one knee and proposed. The Mobile Police Department had been in on the plan the whole time. The officers used unloaded stun guns during the prank. Blackmon described it as the “perfect” proposal, though many who saw the video felt differently. Some posted on social media that there was nothing funny nor romantic about a staged police confrontation. McPherson apologized to anyone who took his proposal the wrong way.