Jason Fletcher: Last News

A US police officer attempted to stop a video of himself arguing with a protester from being shared online by playing a Taylor Swift song on his phone, believing it would trigger takedown systems if any such videos were uploaded, in particular onto YouTube. Which was sneaky.

Taylor Swift song during a clash with protestors in an attempt to get any footage of him pulled from YouTube for copyright infringement.Protestors gathered at the Alameda County Courthouse in Oakland, California yesterday (July 1), where the pre-trial hearing of San Leandro Police Officer Jason Fletcher was taking place.He is facing voluntary manslaughter charges for killing a Black man called Steven Taylor in a Walmart store last year.

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

Police officers have been put under a microscope over the past few years, but some have found sneaky ways to avoid being looked at closely.