NYPD's Twitter request for photos backfires

(MENAFN- Arab News) New york: a request by the new york city police department has backfired — in a very public way.

its request that twitter users share pictures of them posing with police officers has caused people to start sending in photos of police brutality.

the nypd sent a tweet on tuesday saying it might feature the photographs on its facebook page.

the responses soon turned ugly when occupy wall street tweeted a photograph of cops battling protesters with the caption 'changing hearts and minds one baton at a time."

other photos included an elderly man bloodied after being arrested for jaywalking.

some respondents did send in the type of police-friendly photographs officials were hoping to get.

nypd spokeswoman kim royster says the uncensored and open dialogue was good for the city.