Cops have lost control of the Police PR Spin Machine. ***** It was a social media backfire just waiting to happen. When CNN called on Twitter users to offer up questions for a panel of police officers on an upcoming segment called Cops Under Fire, it instead elicited a flood of sarcasm, outrage and derision centered on recent high-profile incidents of police violence. Thanks to the backlash, the hashtag #AskACop climbed to the top of the list of U.S. Twitter trends Tuesday night. The network should have known what it was getting itself into. When NYPD called on New Yorkers to tweet out pictures with cops in an effort to drum up goodwill for the department this April, the campaign was overrun with pictures depicting police brutality.
Posted on: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 06:54:29 +0000
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