K-Pop Fans Took Down a Police Snitching App

K-Pop Fans Took Down a Police Snitching App

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https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/g5pg4y/k-pop-fans-took-down-a-police-snitching-app

With protests and riots erupting in more than a hundred cities across the US, massive crowds of people are taking to the streets to demonstrate against police violence and racism. But K-pop fans are protesting in their own way, by overwhelming a police app designed to let citizens report crimes by spamming it with video tributes to their favorite idols.

On Sunday, K-pop fan accounts on social media targeted the Dallas Police’s iWatch Dallas app, which allows users to submit videos of alleged crimes. The Dallas police began promoting the app on Twitter during the escalating protests over the police killings of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and other Black people across the country.