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NYPD all caught up, Twitter campaign backfires badly

New York police on Tuesday were eating extra helpings of humble pie after asking people to post images of themselves and NYPD officers on Twitter -- only to face a deluge of pictures of alleged police brutality.

Updated on: Apr 23, 2014, 15:39:40 IST
AFP | By , New York
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New York police on Tuesday were eating extra helpings of humble pie after asking people to post images of themselves and NYPD officers on Twitter -- only to face a deluge of pictures of alleged police brutality.

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The department posted the follwoing on its NYPD News Twitter feed, hoping to fuel a feel-good, low-cost public relations campaign.

The result was anything but.

That didn’t go quite as planned, now did it?

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