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#MyNYPD Twitter Fail Spawns #MyLAPD, Showing Police Hard At Work Beating Folks Up
The LAPD in the 77th Street division at work (Photo by Atomic Hot Links via the LAist Featured Photos pool on Flickr)
When the NYPD decided yesterday it would be great PR campaign to ask New Yorkers to tweet out happy photos of the police doing good, coupled with the #MyNYPD hashtag, we're pretty sure they immediately regretted it. The NYPD didn't expect New Yorkers to tweet out an onslaught of photos, videos and personal stories sharing their personal experiences with police brutality. Hours later, cities all around the country had come up with their own subversive, anti-police brutality hashtags featuring violent snapshots of their local forces.
That spawned L.A.'s own #MyLAPD hashtag: instead of photos of the LAPD helping elderly ladies cross the street or posing happily with babies, we got these images of the LAPD:
#myLAPD saving your hard earned tax dollars- pepper spray isn't free, you know... pic.twitter.com/JYpgPre03y
— Rude (@Ruderealism) April 23, 2014
When the bullies who used to pick on people back when you were in school grow up, they put on a badge #myLAPD pic.twitter.com/VNxZDGLNAn
— Rude (@Ruderealism) April 23, 2014
#myLAPD at MacArthur Park on #MayDay 2007. pic.twitter.com/LKbflD10sI
— LA CAN (@LACANetwork) April 22, 2014
#myLAPD shooting a brother in the back on their lunch break...it really happened. pic.twitter.com/WyFzQsGAgf
— LA CAN (@LACANetwork) April 23, 2014
Photos of the police holding cute puppies? No, more like shooting a dog point blank:
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And remember Kim Nguyen, the handcuffed woman who fell out of an LAPD squad with her top undone? She says Koreatown police officers sexually assaulted her.
#myLAPD picked up Kim Nguyen in K-town, assaulted her and threw her out of the car door when they were done pic.twitter.com/pTGHcrLIzB
— peace is illegal (@idealovindara) April 23, 2014
Let's not forget these two infamous ones:
Lets not forget #myLAPD most famous moment, fast approaching it's 25th anniversary. Justice isn't blind, it's dead pic.twitter.com/PxZBWTSabG
— Rude (@Ruderealism) April 23, 2014
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