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After the deadly photographs of a police officer on a younger man in Oldenburg, she warns police Before spreading footage of uninvolved cops. These can be named as alleged shooters, however would don’t have anything to do with the deadly police operation, in line with data from the Oldenburg police division on Instagram. The unfold of those footage and contributions results in felony penalties.

“We have found that photos of police officers who can be found in the media are now being abused,” stated a spokesman for the police division Oldenburg. “Apparently, these photos are used to focus on certain civil servants, but they have nothing to do with the incidents.”

Investigations run

This is a superb burden for the officers involved and to not be added. In the occasion of corresponding circumstances, investigations can be initiated and purposes for the media are submitted to quick deletion of the contributions. Several circumstances are at the moment identified. “However, how often these posts have been spread cannot be said at the moment,” stated the spokesman. The investigation was nonetheless ongoing.

On the early Easter Sunday, an official in Oldenburg shot 5 instances within the path of a 21-year-old. According to the post-mortem, this was injured on the hip, on the higher physique and on the top. Three photographs hit him from behind, a fourth shot is alleged to have hit him on the thigh.

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