“Are we having a dance party now?” he asked. When the sergeant whipped out his phone and started playing Taylor Swift, Burch was taken aback. Now we have cops marching out here telling us what to do? That is infuriating.” “In our opinion a cop murdered their brother. “This is as triggering as a situation can be for the family,” Burch tells The Verge. “You can’t keep twisting this.” the sergeant responded. “You’re saying there’s a genuine concern we have that someone’s going to trip on this banner?“ Burch asked, according to the video. (Fletcher was later charged with felony manslaughter.) He was listening to the pre-trial hearing with members of the Justice 4 Steven Taylor campaign when an officer approached him and asked him to move a banner. Now, there is explicit evidence of a police officer admitting to playing a popular song in order to keep a video off of YouTube.īurch was at the courthouse on June 29th to support the family of Steven Taylor, who was killed by San Leandro police officer Jason Fletcher while having a mental health crisis at Walmart. The Beverly Hills Police Department said playing music while answering questions is “not a procedure that has been recommended by Beverly Hills Police command staff” and that the videos were “currently under review.” In both cases, though, the officer didn’t directly admit to the practice. Devermont told Vice that this wasn’t an isolated incident, sharing an earlier video where a different officer used the same tactic with a Beatles song. In February, activist Sennett Devermont documented a Beverly Hills officer blasting Sublime’s “Santeria” on his phone after being asked questions, apparently to make the video more difficult to post online. While playing music in the background of a video isn’t necessarily against YouTube’s rules, it can set off the company’s automatic takedown system. Bystanders have a First Amendment right to record police, but police officers have allegedly tried to exploit copyright law to prevent people from sharing those videos, playing music that could trigger a takedown notice.
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