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The Department has become aware of allegations that an image was being passed around the department and this image was in the workplace. There are also allegations that the post with the image was authored by a department employee.

4:36 AM · Feb 14, 2021

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A personnel complaint has been initiated and we are pursuing each allegation including interviewing the department member who brought it to our attention.

LAPD HQ

@LAPDHQ

Feb 14, 2021

At this point the Department has not identified any actual postings in the workplace or identified that it was in fact our department employee who created the image. We have raised the apparent existence of the image and directed commands to survey the worksites for it.

LAPD HQ

@LAPDHQ

Feb 14, 2021

If found any employee or supervisor is directed to take possession and identify those present. The Department will have zero tolerance for this type of behavior.

Wut

This is the most vague statement I've ever read the #lapd put out.

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Jayson Salomon

@jaysonjsalomon

Feb 14, 2021

Take a cue from LASD and their photo scandal: release a statement like this AFTER you’ve swept it under the rug so it looks like you did something for the public. But that wouldn’t have happened, right? :)

Rudy Osto

@RudyOsto

Feb 14, 2021

Wow. A passed around image authored by an employee. In other words, someone who works for LAPD posted a meme someone complained about and now they have to be canceled. Friggin snowflakes