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Major Nikon

(36,827 posts)
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 11:02 AM Jun 2020

Dallas Police Asked People To Call Out Protesters. People Flooded Their App With K-Pop Instead.

The Dallas PD's iWatch Dallas app is currently down "due to technical difficulties."

On Sunday, the Dallas Police Department asked people to send in "video of illegal activity" from the Black Lives Matter protests in the city through the iWatch Dallas app, where people can submit photo, video, or text tips about possible crimes. Instead, it received a flood of pictures and videos of K-pop artists.

In response to the tweeted request from Dallas Police, hundreds of K-pop fans replied with photos and videos of their favorite artists. Many people also claimed to have submitted videos of the police harming protesters, as well as fan edits of K-pop artists, to the iWatch Dallas app.

Within hours of the original tweet, the Dallas Police Department followed up with a tweet that the iWatch Dallas app was down temporarily "due to technical difficulties." (K-pop fans confirmed they too were having difficulties submitting to the app.) Hundreds of people subsequently replied to this Dallas PD tweet with memes and videos of K-pop artists.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/dallas-police-kpop
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Dallas Police Asked People To Call Out Protesters. People Flooded Their App With K-Pop Instead. (Original Post) Major Nikon Jun 2020 OP
My 9 yr old granddaughter likes K-Pop! HA! Budi Jun 2020 #1
 

Budi

(15,325 posts)
1. My 9 yr old granddaughter likes K-Pop! HA!
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 12:15 PM
Jun 2020

These kids were born with IPads in their hands.
Trump's very fine ppl are in for a whole different kind of protest.
It's not just happening in the Streets...

Bet Baron Trump knows who KPop is!
He's probably laughing at his dad....." 😄 ya whatever dad..ok boomer!"

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