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Police to Stop Sticking Lego Heads Onto Suspect’s Faces After Lego Reportedly Said Please Stop | The Murrieta Police Department stated that it started putting Lego heads on suspect’s faces to comply with a new California law.


The Murrieta Police Department stated that it started putting Lego heads on suspect’s faces to comply with a new California law.

A police department in California that started obscuring its suspects’ faces with Lego heads will cease the practice after the toy company reportedly reached out and told it to please stop. “The Lego Group reached out to us and respectfully asked us to refrain from using their intellectual property in our social media content which of course we understand and will comply with,” Durrant said, according to Fox News. The Murrieta Police Department still has its obscured mugshots dating to at least last year up on its Facebook account, so it’s not clear whether this new law applies to photos on social media where the suspect’s face is not shown.

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