In case you’ve been living in a cave this week and haven’t heard, the NYPD tried to dive into social networking promotions with the hashtag #mynypd. They asked citizens to post pictures of themselves with the state’s armed soldiers in the war on drugs, prostitution, permitless business, just being brown or black, and–maybe the biggest crime of all!–people doing first amendment things out of the designated area. Here I have collected some of the top pictures, even though apparently the NYPD was surprised the citizens weren’t smiling in these lovely shots.
And finally here is my favorite of all, and in this one there are plenty of smiling faces:
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