Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorA California police officer played Taylor Swift’s “Blank Space” in an attempt to prevent a Black Lives Matters activist from uploading a video to YouTube — in the belief that the platform’s copyright-detection system would block it.It didn’t work.In fact, the video in question was not only shared successfully on YouTube, it has gone viral — garnering widespread attention because of the controversy.On June 29, BLM protesters gathered at the Alameda Country courthouse in Oakland, Calif., before a pretrial hearing for Jason Fletcher, a former police officer charged with voluntary manslaughter for shooting and killing Steven Taylor, a Black man, inside a Walmart store in 2020.As captured on video, an officer from.
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