Ben Swann – by Samuel EatonNew York City – The NYPD News tweeted earlier today that they wanted people to share their photos of themselves with NYPD. They asked people to use the hashtag #myNYPD. They hoped to have a lot of smiling faces showing the nice side of the NYPD. However, it did not take long before the feed filled up with images and videos of police brutality.
Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us & tag it #myNYPD. It may be featured on our Facebook. pic.twitter.com/mE2c3oSmm6
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) April 22, 2014
One of Luke Rudkowsi’s tweets showed a NYPD officer beating him with a baton.
#mynypd beats me with a baton for being a jouranlist VIDEO https://t.co/0oWBT6wLBe
— Luke Rudkowski (@Lukewearechange) April 22, 2014
Others posted pictures of the elderly man who was beat for jaywalking and other recent police brutality images.
Copwatch reminded us of the innocent people shot outside the Empire State building.
#myNYPD shot 9 innocent bystanders near the Empire State Bldg just to get one guy pic.twitter.com/5e1dZLnri2
— Copwatch (@Copwatch) April 22, 2014
Complex Magazine shows us how the NYPD handles someone being detained.
The worst of #MyNYPD –> http://t.co/qyWvHTYHEl pic.twitter.com/g8YejNKZor
— Complex (@Complex) April 22, 2014
Aside from the complete failure of the marketing campaign, the most surprising thing may be the sheer number of images and videos of NYPD police brutality there are.
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BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!! RLMAO!!!!! 😆
What IDIOTS!!!
Like I told admin, be careful what you ask for.
hahaha talk about a backfire
Where’s Angel on this one? 🙂
Laughing so hard that I couldn’t comment. 🙂
I have to admit, this one had me howling. 😆
Serves them right. LOL 😉
You can bet the farm LAPD won’t follow suit. LOL
According to this, there is a #MyLAPD.
http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2014/04/23/nypd-looking-at-new-ways-to-communicate-after-twitter-request-backfires/
http://nypost.com/2014/04/23/nypds-twitter-campaign-disaster-spreads-to-lapd/
http://www.dailydot.com/news/mylapd-mynypd-lapd-nypd-twitter/
Outstanding! Good find, Angel. 🙂 You should send that second link to Henry/admin. That would put some smiles on us West coasters faces. 🙂 🙂 🙂
Done. LOL 😉
NICE! 🙂
I was surprised I beat you to this one. LOL
LOL Get a load of this one (the last sentence, especially):
http://nypost.com/2014/04/22/nypds-twitter-outreach-completely-backfired/
😯 🙄 😆
Still can’t fix stupid. 🙄
It is to be expected, anyone with average intelligence would anticipate what the result of such a request would be.
The Police only hire sub-average persons. (commonly known as Morons.)
Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch.
This article is absolutely HILARIOUS! Haha!
Paybacks a bitch, ain’t it?
What goes around, comes around.
LOL 🙂
However, they didn’t “get it.”
http://www.aol.com/article/2014/04/23/nyc-police-head-we-wont-quit-social-media/20874242/?icid=maing-grid7%7Cmain5-news%7Cdl19%7Csec1_lnk3%26pLid%3D467974
http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-crime/blamed-mynypd-debacle-sources-article-1.1766121