Emails show Berkeley police celebrated 'retweets' & 'engagements' from protester mugshots cops posted on social media
by Xeni Jardin from on (#3YVS3)
Internal emails show that the Berkeley, California Police Department (BPD) talked of building a "counter-narrative" on social media against anti-fascist protesters as BPD tweeted out their names and mugshots, then boasted of retweets and "engagement" metrics when mugshots went viral. This amounts to cops doxxing protesters and high-fiving each other over it. That's creepy, and seems like an obvious abuse of power, if not also an abuse of the law. (more")