After noticing he was being recorded, a police officer started playing Taylor Swift’s Blank Space in an attempt to prevent a video of the interaction making its way onto YouTube, knowing that YouTube’s overzealous copyright takedowns could get the recording removed.
This is not the first time a police officer has played a popular song after noticing they are being recorded and we’ve reported on the phenomenon in the past. The difference is this officer admitted to the motive behind playing the song.
The incident happened on Tuesday, outside the Alameda Courthouse in Oakland, CA. The officer approached James Burch, the policy director of the Anti Police-Terror Project (ATPT), demanding he remove a banner expressing support for the family of Steven Taylor, a man who was killed at Walmart by a San Leandro police officer.
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