NYPD's Twitter Campaign Backfires 173
An anonymous reader writes "A NYPD community outreach campaign designed to show images of citizens with cops turned ugly quickly when a deluge of images depicting police brutality came in. From the article: 'The responses soon turned ugly when Occupy Wall Street tweeted a photograph of cops battling protesters with the caption "changing hearts and minds one baton at a time." Other photos included an elderly man bloodied after being arrested for jaywalking.' Police Commissioner Bill Bratton says, 'I kind of welcome the attention,' of the #myNYPD project."
Re:At least it wasn't goatse (Score:5, Informative)
Re:If they were interested in upholding the law... (Score:5, Informative)
Look what happened to this guy when he tried to blow the whistle on all the bad cops http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A... [wikipedia.org]
They abducted him and had him admitted to a mental hospital for six days!
Re:At least it wasn't goatse (Score:5, Informative)
...well, there were batons.
Justin Volpe, formerly of the NYPD, already has that one covered. So egregiously that he even went to jail, in an atypical twist.
Re:Some of these are overreaction (Score:4, Informative)
"presumably after the guy already did something wrong and tried to resist arrest."
Is that anything like the below case, where a passenger in a car where the driver did run stayed in the car and waited for police to return. After they came back he slowly exited the car with his hands up and made no attempt to flee or resist and they still chucked him to the ground, pinned him down, tased him, punched and kicked him multiple times and then heaved him face first into the back of a police cruiser with his hands cuffed behind his back?
http://www.bringmethenews.com/... [bringmethenews.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Re:If they were interested in upholding the law... (Score:5, Informative)
Comparing Snowden to this NYDP officer does the officer a great deal of injustice.
Rosa Parks sat on a bus and got arrested for it. She didn't move to the soviet Union to tell us how great their buses are.
Snowden did not "move to the Soviet Union". The U.S. government illegally pulled his passport (he was not under accusation and still isn't) and stranded him in the Soviet Union. And now filthy and documented liars and perjurers like Clapper and Holder put on crocodile tears over Snowden having to cope with the situation they are responsible for.