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☆ A California police force is in trouble with Lego after using its signature yellow heads to hide the faces of suspected criminals
▼ + stars: | 2024-03-27 | by ( Polly Thompson | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A South California police department has been editing Lego heads onto suspects to protect their identity. AdvertisementA Southern California police department has found itself in trouble with Lego after it started editing the toy company's famous yellow heads onto criminal suspects. Screenshots show Lego faces edited onto suspects and posted to the Murrieta PD's Instagram page. The department may now have to turn to its stash of Barbie and Shrek faces, which also appear on the Instagram page, to protect suspects' anonymity. "Do they want people, who are being paid with their tax dollars, be paid to put Lego faces on people so it can be shown on social media?

Persons: —, Bill, Jeremy Durrant, " Durrant, Corey Jackson, Jackson Organizations: Service, Southern, Police, Murrieta Police Department, Lego, Fox News Digital, California Assembly, Associated Press Locations: California, Danish, Southern California, Murrieta, Los Angeles

The Murrieta Police Department has been using Lego heads and emojis to cover people's faces in posts on social sites since at least early 2023. “Why the covered faces?” the department wrote March 18 in an Instagram post that featured five people in a lineup, their faces covered by Lego heads with varying expressions. The post went on to reference a California law that took effect Jan. 1, limiting departments in sharing mugshots on social media. The California law’s primary sponsor, Assemblymember Corey Jackson, said that while the Lego heads protect people's privacy, he wonders how Murrieta residents see it. “Do they want people, who are being paid with their tax dollars, be paid to put Lego faces on people so it can be shown on social media?

Persons: “, Jeremy Durrant, ” Durrant, Assemblymember Corey Jackson, ” Jackson, “ That’s, Jackson, ” Organizations: ANGELES, Murrieta Police Department, Associated Press, Department of Justice Locations: Southern California, California

Mr. Fitzsimons’s sentence, handed down by Judge Rudolph Contreras in Federal District Court in Washington, was one of a growing list of stiff penalties given to rioters who attacked the police on Jan. 6. Image Mr. Fitzsimons at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Credit... via Justice DepartmentIn May, Peter Schwartz, a Pennsylvania welder who hurled a chair at officers and then assaulted them with chemical spray, was sentenced to slightly more than 14 years in prison. On Wednesday, Daniel Lyons Scott, a member of the Proud Boys who “bulldozed two officers,” prosecutors said, while leading a charge against the police outside the Capitol, was sentenced to five years in prison. Mr. Fitzsimons was sentenced the same day that another Jan. 6 defendant, Alan Hostetter, a former Southern California police chief, was convicted on four charges, including conspiring to obstruct the certification of the 2020 election that took place at the Capitol that day. Mr. Fitzsimons was convicted at a bench trial in September of 11 crimes, including the assaults.

Persons: Judge Rudolph Contreras, Fitzsimons, Peter Schwartz, Daniel Rodriguez, Michael Fanone, Daniel Lyons Scott, “, Alan Hostetter, Hostetter, Prosecutors, Fitzsimons’s, ” Organizations: Court, Capitol, Justice Department, Trump, Southern California police Locations: Washington, Pennsylvania, California, Southern California

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