The officer s plan, however, appears to have been a misfire. The video captured by Burch and his organisation – the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project, which seeks to hold local police departments accountable – ended up amassing more than 680,000 views on Twitter by Friday morning (local time). A version uploaded to YouTube was still there Friday morning as well, with more than 110,000 views.
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Sgt David Shelby pulled out his phone and started blaring Taylor Swift s 2014 hit single Blank Space. The irony was not lost on the Alameda County sheriff s office. “The officer was trying to be a little smart, and it kind of backfired,” Sgt Ray Kelly, a sheriff s office spokesman, told
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A screen capture from a video recording an encounter between Anti Police-Terror Project Police Director James Burch, left and Alameda County Sheriff s Sgt. David Shelby, right. Shelby is under investigation after he played a Taylor Swift song on his phone during the encounter, in an apparent attempt to ensure the recording of the incident would be automatically removed from social media sites like YouTube and Twitter.Screen capture via Anti Police-Terror Project
An Alameda County sheriff’s sergeant who pulled out his phone and started playing a Taylor Swift song in the middle of an argument with protesters is being investigated for allegedly using the tactic to keep a video of him from being posted on social media because it contained copyrighted music.
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