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Bayonne, NJ, Chief Upset as Fake Police Account on TikTok Goes Viral
BAYONNE — A TikTok account that’s rapidly gaining followers claiming to be the “Bayonne Police Department” is a fake, city police say.
The account had nearly 25,000 followers as of Tuesday afternoon, with at least eight videos all set to the same racially derogatory audio track.
“The Bayonne Police Department is in no way affiliated with these videos,” Police Chief Robert Geisler said in a post on the department’s real Facebook page.
None of the uninformed individuals in the videos were members of Bayonne’s police force, he added.
“It appears an egregious song was dubbed on previously recorded TikTok videos from the Police Officers’ accounts,” Geisler continued.
Each video included similar hashtags, including:
#police
#policeofficer
#policehumor
#georgefloyd
#hecantbreathe
The chief also thanked “the many members of our community who took the time to notify the Bayonne Police Department of these videos' existence.”
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