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HARLEM, Manhattan (WABC) -- Twitter was thrown into a frenzy implicit the play aft footage captured the NYPD taking video of radical leaving a Drake performance astatine the Apollo Theater successful Harlem, but the section insists it's not what it looks like.
"It was a ample event. Drake backmost astatine the Apollo! We privation that. We privation our constabulary and assemblage involved," New York City Mayor Eric Adams said.
It was an epic play astatine the Apollo. Drake performed for the archetypal clip ever astatine the historical theater.
After the Sunday nighttime concert, fans walked to astir a twelve NYPD officers, successful plain sight, shooting video of those leaving the performance.
The 5 2nd clip went viral, with 20 cardinal views and counting, and angered users connected societal media, including Twitter, astir NYPD surveillance tactics.
"Well, archetypal we person to beryllium honorable with ourselves. Twitter is not existent and those small radical that goes backmost and distant each the clip talking to themselves," Adams said.
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In a connection to Eyewitness News, the NYPD said the serviceman seen successful the bluish overgarment holding the camera is from the 28th Precinct societal media squad and that the serviceman was taking video for an upcoming Twitter station that volition item section assemblage events. The video volition not beryllium utilized for immoderate different reason.
They said the last Drake performance video volition look akin to a video created from a December artifact drive.
The 28th Precinct has been posting highlights from section events, trying to beforehand a affirmative narration betwixt the assemblage and the NYPD.
"When you person those that are sitting astatine location successful the country of the room, trying to find a crushed to disagreement NYPD from mundane New Yorkers, past they are going to accidental that," Adams said. "Thumbs up to that large skipper up successful the 28 Precinct. I cognize that precinct. I cognize that captain. He's precise community-minded and community-centered and I commend him for doing so."
But the clip reignited concerns raised past week erstwhile Madison Square Garden admitted to utilizing facial designation to region litigants with actions against the arena. This prompted authorities legislators to present a caller measure Monday, that would prohibition the usage of facial designation astatine sporting events.
Still, with the NYPD providing an mentation arsenic to wherefore cameras were filming radical leaving the Apollo, a batch of New Yorkers inactive aren't buying it. Meaning, the NYPD has a batch much enactment to bash successful improving assemblage relations.
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