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Officials in New York City are using a clip from the 1989 Patrick Swayze movie Road House to urge police officers to avoid unnecessary confrontations as part of a mandatory, $35 million retraining program. "I want you to be nice," Swayze's character says in the clip, which shows him training a group of bar bouncers, "until it's time not to be nice."
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