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.
Individuals and groups like Occupy Wall Street NYC started tweeting photos like these:
Instead, the suggested hashtag of #myNYPD was quickly hijacked by photos of police brutality.
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: