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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This is the Bee.......oh, wait....................
Until now, I’ve only suspected that insanity was contagious.
Now I’m certain of it.
if it’s stupid, it comes for Kalifornia.
Trivializing criminals.
And future crimes can be solved or prevented if we have access to mug shots.
As: a woman or child is abducted and witnesses could identify the suspect but now they aren’t allowed to see the faces. Suspect was seen earlier in the day and used the same kind of van. Also gas station camera showed him before the abduction.
Woman or child found dead a day later.
Progress?
That’s racist! We know perps aren’t usually yellow, they’re of a darker persuasion.
HA! I was thinking the same thing!! LOL.
Some of them will surely claim that their Lego is misgendered.
So if you are as innocent as the freshly fallen snow, and you have a crazy wife who calls the police and says you Blasey-Forded them, they will come and arrest you. Your picture goes up for everyone to see, and then the crazy wife recants, and all charges are dropped. Why should your mug shot be up??? Innocent until proven guilty used to be the mindset. I don’t have a problem with them posting pictures of inmates who have been found guilty by a jury of their peers and are serving time in the correctional facility. Just because you are arrested, doesn’t mean you did anything wrong, just ask most any J6er.
Years ago they stopped showing mugshots on the Atlanta nightly news.
Guess why.
They should put Newsomes head on all of them
if you are a real criminal you cant even have pictures posted of you being arrested, but if you are a J6th protestor you are thrown in jail for years for nothing.
Has this been cleared by Lego? If not I could see a very hefty lawsuit in the making.
Criminals have a right not to be identified. Only in California.
That’s incredibly stupid
“Until now, I’ve only suspected that insanity was contagious. Now I’m certain of it.”
How I wish you were right. No, they are NOT insane, as they would have never gotten to the level of running everything in California if insane. They are PURE EVIL, and when our side can accept that fact, we’ll be able to start fighting them.
...but I’m not optimistic.
Makes sense.
Uh, any black heads? ummmm, asking for a friend...
Can I buy a vowel?
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