The NYPD send out a tweet asking for people to post pictures of themselves with NYPD officers..... They got a little more than they bargained for...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/23/mynypd-twitter-call-out-new-york-police-backfires
Excerpt from the Guardian
"When the New York police department invited people to tweet pictures of their dealings with "New York's finest" with the hashtag #myNYPD, what could possibly have gone wrong?
The attempt at public outreach, however, backfired spectacularly when users flooded Twitter with hundreds of photos of police brutality during Occupy Wall Street, one of an 84-year-old man brutalised for jaywalking – and even a dog being frisked.
By midnight on Tuesday, more than 70,000 people had tweeted about police brutality, ridiculing the NYPD for a social media disaster and recalling the names of people shot dead by police."
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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/23/mynypd-twitter-call-out-new-york-police-backfires
Excerpt from the Guardian
"When the New York police department invited people to tweet pictures of their dealings with "New York's finest" with the hashtag #myNYPD, what could possibly have gone wrong?
The attempt at public outreach, however, backfired spectacularly when users flooded Twitter with hundreds of photos of police brutality during Occupy Wall Street, one of an 84-year-old man brutalised for jaywalking – and even a dog being frisked.
By midnight on Tuesday, more than 70,000 people had tweeted about police brutality, ridiculing the NYPD for a social media disaster and recalling the names of people shot dead by police."
Internet - One, Pigs - Nil.
