The California cops now have a new strategy to prevent citizens and suspects from recording them and posting the videos on the internet and their strategy is to blast Disney songs in their cruisers while making an arrest or confronting suspects. With this, once a video of them is uploaded online, it will be taken down due to copyright infringement.
Do you think this is a genius plan? The Daily Mail has details;
Cops have been caught blasting Disney songs late at night to try and stop people recording their busts and putting them on social media. Officers in Santa Ana, California, blared out classics from Toy Story, Mulan and Encanto so people could not upload them due to copyright reasons.
They played You’ve Got a Friend in Me, We Don’t Talk About Bruno and Reflection around 11 p.m. Locals, many who were either asleep or preparing for bed, were fuming, and a city councilman has vowed to get the practice banned.
The tactic has been used by police forces as a way to stop their arrests from being recorded and plastered online due to the copyright of the songs.
In one instance, cops in Oakland, California, in June blasted Taylor Swift’s 2014 song Blank Space as they confronted activists. Despite the move, footage of the police on both occasions remains on YouTube and other social media sites.
The officers from Santa Ana Police Department were the latest to deploy the method on April 4. A cruiser pulled up on the street around 11pm and started blaring out Un Poco Loco from Disney’s 2017 movie Coco before moving on to You’ve Got A Friend In Me.
The cameraman asked: ‘You guys get paid to listen to music?’ Meanwhile, Santa Ana city Councilman Johnathan Hernandez asked: ‘Why are you playing Disney music?’
He added: ‘Do you live here.’ The officer replied: ‘No I don’t sir.’ Hernandez added: ‘Well, maybe you should treat us with respect.’ The officer apologized.
Here is an idea for cops instead of doing this, stop murdering people and being shady.
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