Toronto-area police force reads mean tweets on camera
York Regional Police aren’t immune to online harassment, and they’ve made a video to articulate that point.
A YouTube video published on Jan. 12 called Cops Read #MeanTweets features a handful of men and women in uniform bluntly reading some of the unkind, strange and downright rude messages Twitter users have sent them.
“Hope y’all wages get cut so you can’t afford a happy meal for ya kids,” one constable reads off her smartphone before giving a deadpan look at the camera and then bursting into giggles.
One staff sergeant appears puzzled when he reads a tweet that questions why the Santa Claus parade is in November.
“Well, that is when most of them are,” he says without looking up from his phone.
Another staff sergeant without much hair on his head reads a tweet asking, “Why are 90% of you bald?”
The video quickly cuts back to the first staff sergeant, who runs his hand threw his full head of hair.
“Stupid genetics,” the second sergeant says.
The tweets go on, with each one getting meaner and inaudible, due to all the necessary bleeping in the footage.
The video, which is less than two minutes in length, ends with a constable thanking their more than 100,000 Twitter followers.
“As you can see, we’ve received some mean tweets, but I can tell you the good ones far outweigh the mean ones,” he says, adding that the police are there for everyone and are only a phone call away.
