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#Mynypd hashtag attracts photos of police violence and abuse

When the NYPD’s Twitter account asked people to tweet photos of their interactions with NYPD and tag them Mynypd, the outcome was pretty predictable: people who feel that the NYPD stands for unchecked brutality, mass-scale stop-and-frisk racism, and the violent defense of the ultra-rich combined with official impunity flooded the tag with photos of NYPD violence.

NYPD’s hashtag campaign backfires horribly [Miles Klee/Daily Dot]

(via Sean Bonner)

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