Los Angeles Times
In the name of criminal justice reform, California lawmakers largely prohibited police departments from posting mug shots of nonviolent suspects or of acquitted defendants on social media accounts, starting this year.
Undeterred, the Murrieta Police Department announced plans this week to continue sharing photos of suspects on its social media accounts — with what appear to be Lego heads substituted for the suspects’ faces. More
Lego has told them to stop using them.
How can you humiliate someone that you aren’t able to identify? I suppose, only a sociologist could come up with ‘logic’ like that. I wonder if he’ll get a kickback from the lawsuits he helps win for the benefit of humiliating some unidentifiable person (most likely providing their identification because of the lawsuit…)
What, no black LEGO heads. RACISTS!
As I person of Asian decent I’m offended.
If I’m arrested in California I want the Batman Lego head.
Steven Hawking is rolling over in his grave.