BACKFIRE: NYPD Asks "Fans" to Upload Photos With Cops, flooded with these images of abuse instead

[Liberal_in_LA]

This week’s social-media fail goes to the New York Police Department, where someone dreamed up a would-be public-relations campaign and asked Twitter users to submit photos of themselves with police officers.

If you’re a sentient being who isn’t drinking whatever is in the water over at the N.Y.P.D., you know where this is going: scores of Twitter users have sent in photos of the department’s use of force, against protesters, journalists, and even dogs.

How did they not see this coming? Considering their reputation and track record, whoever runs the Twitter account should've known what they were opening themselves up to: an aggregate of concentrated failure. Pandora's box came flying open for all of the world to see, and people are taking the carnage and running with it like DeSean Jackson against the Giants.

The Twitter account has been dormant for over an hour, meaning they're probably trying to figure out how to deal with this. For the moment, silence seems to be the best option.


















http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2014/04/mynypd-hashtag-photos-fail

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nypd-twitter-campaign-mynypd-backfires-article-1.1765159#ixzz2zfGr4GwE

http://www.complex.com/city-guide/2014/04/the-most-horrific-mynypd-images-on-twitter?utm_campaign=complexmag+socialflow+04+2014&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2014/04/22/well-the-mynypd-hashtag-sure-backfired-quickly/

[Electric Monk]

1. 38 recs and counting

here http://www.democraticunderground.com/10024857940

[niyad]

3. not every person sees every post.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

16. 133 and counting.

[Historic NY]

2. White shirts are boss's Bratton needs to white room them..

[uponit7771]

4. More proof the LEO leadership isn't living in the real world. Like asking Iraqis what do they think

...of their US occupiers.

Really stupid move....

Wonder if there'll be a myLAPD next...

[dixiegrrrrl]

13. There IS #myLAPD...and more cities!

There is NOPD and CPD, plus others.
the my NYPD twitter site was referencing the additional names.

[blkmusclmachine]

5. ,

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[mountain grammy]

6. I don't care if this is posted on DU a hundred times. I'll K & R it every time!

[uppityperson]

7. oh, look at those nice police officers. Helping all those people who are having medical issues

Doing cpr, helping someone having an epileptic attack, a fainting woman, someone vomiting, helping button the sleeves of a jacket, even helping that nice woman comb out her hair.

[Aerows]

8. I hear one of them delivered milk to a home

so that means that punching civilians is okay. /s

[uppityperson]

9. omg, the comments on the twitter posts are wonderful. another kick

[kcr]

10. .

[hatrack]

11. This is like high art in Bizarro World

Seriously, like something Cocteau would dream up.

[TheKentuckian]

12. Hehe...perfect

[AzDar]

14. Isn't Captain Asshole ( in the middle of last pic) the same DoucheLord who was captured

on film pepper-spraying detained female Occupy protesters? He has a real flair for abusing women, doesn't he?

[mackerel]

15. Looks like NYPD spreads the abuse around

to men, women, white, black, etc.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

17. Nope,...I looked again. No stockbrokers.

[christx30]

29. Yay for diversity! N/t

[DeSwiss]

18. The person who came up with this idea......

...will be walking a beat in the absolute worst section of New York City -- Wall Street. And then they'll have to police real criminals:



- Oinkers never change.......

K&R

[Enthusiast]

19. K&R! This post should have hundreds of recommendations!

[leeroysphitz]

20. Fuck the police. n/t

[leftyohiolib]

21. fucking cowards

[Tribalceltic]

22. is it abuse if I k&r this?

[raven mad]

27. Heck no!

It'd be abuse if you didn't!

[47of74]

23. Too stupid to learn from that one bank

I think it was JP Morgan Chase that wanted to do something with a hashtag that bit them in the ass.

[Jackpine Radical]

24. Laugh, you suckers, laugh.

It was all planned. Now the NYPD has the Twitter accounts of hundreds of public enemies.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

25. Great comment on Twitter...

Interesting that the #myNYPD analysis is "NYPD doesn't know how to use Twitter," not "NYPD shouldn't beat and murder and harass."

http://twitter.com/sentencebender/status/458975541778190336

[uponit7771]

28. +1

[DinahMoeHum]

26. NYPD people have been called pigs for good reason. . .

Yeah, I liked it that this attempt at positive PR was an EPIC FAIL.

Serves them right.

[dougolat]

30. Pity the good cops tainted by these goons....nt

[Blue Owl]

31. Protect and YOU GOT SERVED!