Dallas Police Spammed With K-Pop After Asking People to Send Illegal Activity From Protest

The Dallas Police Department wanted people to snitch on illegal activity from protests in the city, but were just flooded with K-pop memes and videos.

A Dallas police car and an emergency response vehicle sit in the parking lot.
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A Dallas police car and an emergency response vehicle sit in the parking lot.

The Dallas Police Department tried to get people to snitch on each other on Sunday by reporting any illegal activity from ongoing protests in the city through their iWatch Dallas app.

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

The app was instead flooded with K-pop pictures and videos, Mashable reports

!! pic.twitter.com/103cK4BNFd

— dan⁷ (@UMJILUVAFFAIR) May 31, 2020

Due to technical difficulties iWatch Dallas app will be down temporarily. pic.twitter.com/zksA1hkVhV

— Dallas Police Dept (@DallasPD) May 31, 2020

Hours later, the Dallas Police claimed that the app was temporarily down due to "technical difficulties." 

guys download the app and fucking FLOOD that shit with fancams make it SO HARD for them to find anything besides our faves dancing https://t.co/zqjVHLWnZG

— ͏͏ً 雨 ceo of 拜拜 ricky (@YGSHlT) May 31, 2020

While K-pop fans have been known in the past to overwhelm Twitter with clips and images, and garner enough attention and exposure to turn it into a trending topic, they decided to use their collective powers for good by sharing fancams in an effort to help conceal the identities of protesters. 

LMFAO THE KPOP GIRLS TOOK DOWN THE IWATCH DALLAS POLICE APP WITH THEIR FANCAMS pic.twitter.com/U9qLFbJKl5

— ᴏɴᴇ ʜᴀɴᴅ ᴏɴ ꜰʀᴏɴᴛᴀʟ (@soberthots_) June 1, 2020

not Kpop stans having the Dallas police department app crash by spamming it with fancams lmfaooo

— HOOD VOGUE is tired of poverty (@keyon) June 1, 2020

The Dallas Police Department's website said that the app's shutdown was from an "overwhelmed server."

Not bad, internet. 

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