NYPD’s Twitter request for photos backfires
A police lieutenant swung his baton at Occupy Wall Street activists in New York on May 1, 2012. This photo was among the many put on Twitter in response to a New York Police Department request for Twitter users to share pictures of themselves posing with police officers.
NEW YORK » A request by the New York City Police Department has backfired — in a very public way.
Its request that Twitter users share pictures of them posing with police officers has caused people to start sending in photos of police brutality.
The NYPD sent a tweet on Tuesday, saying it might feature the photographs on its Facebook page.
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.
Some respondents did send in the type of police-friendly photographs officials were hoping to get.
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NYPD spokeswoman Kim Royster says the uncensored and open dialogue was good for the city.
