April 24, 2014
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“Do you have a photo w/ a member of the NYPD? Tweet us and tag it at #myNYPD. It may be featured on our Facebook,” the department posted on its NYPD News Twitter feed, hoping to fuel a feel-good, low-cost public relations campaign.
NYPD brass expected to see photos of smiling New York City residents posed next to smiling NYPD cops, making everybody happy. Boy, did they get the surprise of their life.
By Tuesday morning, photos and tweets of scores of brutal arrests went viral, including the image of an officer pulling the hair of a handcuffed young black woman and another of an 84-year-old whose face was bloodied by NYPD after being stopped for jaywalking. Yet another image displayed NYPD officers striking a protester with the caption “Here the #NYPD engages with its community members, changing hearts and minds one baton at a time.” Naturally, dozens of images were posted from the controversial “stop and frisk” era, which unfairly targeted minority youth to be detained for no reason other than being young and a minority.
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Apparently, the NYPD has yet to receive or post any of the “happy shots” it was expecting for its Facebook page. Can anyone say OOPS!!
HAHAHAHAHA this is too funny. That's what they get!