Over the weekend, the Dallas Police Department introduced a new app where citizens could submit videos of protestors anonymously. Hundreds of K-Pop fans took it upon themselves to submit memes and videos of their favorite artists.
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The Dallas Police Department announced its iWatch Dallas app on Saturday in hopes that citizens will report illegal activities from the protests against police brutality. Their tweet said, “If you have a video of illegal activity from the protests and are trying to share it with @DallasPD, you can download it to our iWatch Dallas app, You can remain anonymous.” Once Stan Twitter caught wind of the tweet, they decided to submit various fancams of famous K-pop groups such as BTS, EXO, Seventeen, BIGBang, and other groups.
If you have video of illegal activity from the protests and are trying to share it with @DallasPD, you can download it to our iWatch Dallas app. You can remain anonymous. @ChiefHallDPD @CityOfDallas
— Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) May 31, 2020
In the report by Mashable, K-Pop fans also submitted videos of other police officers, memes, and unrelated content.
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Several hours later, the Dallas PD made another tweet saying the app was temporarily shut down due to the override of videos.
Due to technical difficulties iWatch Dallas app will be down temporarily. pic.twitter.com/zksA1hkVhV
— Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) May 31, 2020
Several Twitter users were surprised by the Kpop stans actions to protect protestors since they do not have the best reputation on the site.
y’all, go look at the replies under dallas pd’s tweets …I will never shit on kpop stans ever again lolol
— kt (@ktprks) June 3, 2020
I’m crying. This thread of edits my Koreans made (to spam/clog the Dallas p*lice app) of vids of white ppl rioting then going into the kpop fancams……….. https://t.co/zy6Mv5jMnT
— REGI💮 (@regi_nacho) June 2, 2020
they're spamming police snitch apps with kpop videos, in particular fancams of their faves. they (and others doing the same sort of thing) managed to actually bring down the app for dallas lol. to see the look on the devs faces when they started sifting thru the submitted content
— Rémy (@_reycath) June 2, 2020
The Dallas iWatch app is up and running again. It needs to be flooded with kpop fan cams again we have to protect the protestors https://t.co/iOoFiIc09r
— BKIPP (@kipovo) June 2, 2020
Millions continue to protest nationally and internationally to end police brutality and systemic racism amid the tragic deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Ahmaud Arbery, and countless others.