It has not been a great year for the New York City Police Department. On top of high-profile police-brutality incidents and pervasive trust issues, the NYPD can’t seem to get its social media act together.
Shortly after 11am EST, the Twitter account for the NYPD’s Midtown South Precinct unleashed a doozy of a “Motivational Monday” tweet.
icymi: NYPD's @NYPDMTS acct posted this (since deleted) tweet wherein they proffered a "Motivational Monday" message pic.twitter.com/E0cp991KMS
— The Straddler (@thestraddler) December 15, 2014
It’s hard to explain just how mind-bogglingly tone-deaf this now-deleted tweet was—but most of the people who saw it helpfully provided some context.
NYPD account tweets speech in "A Few Good Men" where Jack Nicholson defends beating up a guy until he died. https://t.co/Jf5m9ClayS
— Matt Pearce 🦅🇺🇸 (@mattdpearce) December 15, 2014
NYPD Precinct Tweets A Few Good Men Monologue Justifying "Code Red" Murder: http://t.co/cGU7bUioDC pic.twitter.com/ji4Z8nuNam
— Slate (@Slate) December 15, 2014
https://twitter.com/harrysiegel/status/544570638154092544
@tomgara it’s worse than that – they watched A Few Good Men and thought it was a tragedy in which Nicholson played the good guy.
— arabist (@arabist) December 15, 2014
https://twitter.com/MikeNellis/status/544569091034734592
https://twitter.com/dylanlscott/status/544566170096254976
At press time, the NYPD had yet to apologize for the tweet.
Talk about A Few Bad Men.
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