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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCNN's #AskACop Hashtag Backfires, Triggers Anti-Police Backlash ... Oopsie!
CNN's #AskACop Hashtag Backfires, Triggers Anti-Police BacklashCNN's request for viewers to ask cops questions via Twitter didn't go so well.
AlterNet * By Kali Holloway * December 17, 2014
In a move that seems to suggest it has no idea how Twitter works, CNN asked viewers to submit questions to police officers using the hashtag #AskACop. It went exactly the way you and anyone who has ever used social media would expect.
The request was part of a special CNN Tonight episode titled Cops Under Fire. Host Don Lemon, in the company of a panel of police officers, put out the call to Twitter users to submit questions they might #AskACop. On the heels of widespread protests against police brutality, particularly in communities of color, the questions that poured in were mostly thinly veiled criticisms of outrageous police abuses.
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CNN's #AskACop Hashtag Backfires, Triggers Anti-Police Backlash ... Oopsie! (Original Post)
99th_Monkey
Dec 2014
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longship
(40,416 posts)1. Here's a great one.
#Askacop I have a math question: if 1 Black man has zero guns, zero knives and two hands, how many bullets does it take to disarm him?
Sorry. Had to type it in. I think I got it right, though.
Damned great. From Jamilah Lemieux (@JamilahLemieux) who is pretty fucking awesome for that Tweet.
Oh! And R&
Another:
Hey @CNN, are you going to actually report how bad this hashtag went for you? #Askacop
That one was from the great "Blocked Lesnar" (@TheCoolTeacher_).
I think I may click through to Twitter, something I never do. This may be worth it.
99th_Monkey
(19,326 posts)2. Thank you.
I thought of typing that one out myself, but was too lazy, so thank you.
Downwinder
(12,869 posts)3. Anybody watch to see the responses?