【1985 Archives】

【1985 Archives】

On Saturday night985 Archives Avon and Somerset police in the UK had something of a nightmare.

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One of the police department's official accounts retweeted an illegal stream of the boxing match between Anthony Joshua and Carlos Takam. This was brought to their attention by a concerned Twitizen.

Not straight away, it would seem:

Not only was the stream itself illegal, between rounds it was showing pornography.

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Although not everyone was quite so conscientious.

The police account eventually noticed what was happening and removed the link.

"We are aware that last night a spam link, containing inappropriate content, was accidentally retweeted on one of our official A&S Police Twitter accounts," a department spokesperson said in a statement.

The post was made due to "human error", according to the statement.

We all make mistakes, retweeting porn from a police account though, that's a biggie. Move over Ted Cruz.


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