NYPD attempts to start a viral hashtag; things do not go well

This is not what the NYPD had in mind.

A request by the New York City Police Department has backfired in a very public way.

On Tuesday, the offical @NYPDNews account sent a Tweet asking that users share photos of themselves with NYPD officers, saying it might feature the photographs on its Facebook page.

Instead, the suggested hashtag of #myNYPD was quickly hijacked by photos of police brutality.

Individuals and groups like Occupy Wall Street NYC started tweeting  photos like these:

Other photos included an elderly man bloodied after being arrested for jaywalking.

Some respondents did send in the type of police-friendly photographs officials were hoping to get.

But most of the photos were more like this:

NYPD spokeswoman Kim Royster says the uncensored and open dialogue was good for the city, however one Twitter user may have summed up all of the #fail best with this tweet: