Posted on 03/20/2024 11:39:38 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
Getting arrested is no child’s play — except for these California cops.
The Murrieta Police Department has been posting hilarious arrest and lineup photos with suspects’ faces replaced by Lego heads to comply with a woke state law protecting offenders’ rights.
Images on the department’s Instagram page show the Lego blocks with a variety of facial expressions — crying, frowning, smirking or raging — digitally superimposed onto the bodies of people being busted.
The agency said replacing suspects’ faces with Lego blocks allows it to be in compliance with a new state law.
One appears to show two people handcuffed in the back of a squad car — with the Lego face on one angrily looking at the other, whose toy head is crying.
The Photoshop-savvy law enforcement agency explained Monday that it is shielding detainees’ faces to comply with a new state law prohibiting the release of mugshots and booking photos of those accused of nonviolent crimes.
The law, signed by Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom last September and implemented on Jan. 1, also requires police departments to remove other mugshots from social media after 14 days.
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That’s not really what’s going on here. They aren’t replacing the faces for important stuff like amber alert suspects. It’s only in silly things you can argue they shouldn’t even be posting online, photos they decide are “funny” and put on the police department’s social media purely for entertainment.
Some Scandinavian country tried this by pixelating faces to hide the race of criminals. Naturally you could tell the black pixelated faces were black criminals so they changed all the pixelations to Caucasian-colored pixelation. Of course they didn’t pixelate the arms of the criminals.
When I saw the photo I presumed — correctly so, no doubt — it was a group photo of the police department administrative staff.
I liked it. It was funny. Sadly...
Lego tells California police department to stop using its minifigure heads
https://ktla.com/news/california/lego-stops-california-police-department-from-hiding-suspects-faces-with-toy-heads/
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