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

[Major Nikon]

Source: Buzzfeednews

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.

Read more: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/carolinehaskins1/dallas-police-kpop

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[catrose]

1. Bubble bubble pop pop pop

[mr_lebowski]

2. No way there wasn't at least SOME good old-fashioned Rick-Rolling going on ...

If not, I'm disappointed.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. K-Pop artists are never gonna give you up ...

... they're never gonna let you down.

They'll never run around and desert you.

[karin_sj]

3. Idiots

[dem in texas]

4. Weird pictures in Dallas Morning News this morning

The front page of the DMN covered the protests from Sunday. Almost all of the images were of white people, not black. Where are the Black Lives Matter?

Strange.

I think I'd rather listen to K-Pop than all the wall to wall coverage of the protests.

[rockfordfile]

6. What the hell is kpop?

[cayugafalls]

7. This.

Psycho - Red Velvet

[Orangepeel]

8. Korean popular music

Although it generally indicates "popular music" within South Korea, the term is often used in a narrower sense to describe a modern form of South Korean pop that is influenced by styles and genres from around the world, such as experimental, rock, jazz, gospel, hip hop, R&B, reggae, electronic dance, folk, country, and classical on top of its traditional Korean music roots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-pop