After a few minutes, the police seem to notice the man filming them, and one of them walks over to a police cruiser and turns on the speakers to play “You’ve Got A Friend In Me” aloud. from the Disney movie. toy story.
More Encanto, Coco, and Mulan songs play next, waking up the townspeople who demand the police turn off the music.
They eventually do, but not before they catch the eye of a resident who is also a city councilman, identified as Jonathan Hernandez.
He too asked what the reason for the music was, and an officer is heard to respond “copyright violation”, pointing to the unidentified man filming the scene.
In the United States, police have previously been accused of playing copyrighted songs when filmed by civilians.
Social media platforms such as YouTube are often quick to remove such videos for their use of copyrighted material – although as of Wednesday, video of the Santa Ana Audits incident was still online and had been viewed over 46,000 times.
“I’m embarrassed that this is how you treat my neighbors,” Mr. Hernandez said in the video.
The policeman he was talking to ended up apologizing.
“The Santa Ana Police Department is aware of a video involving one of our officers,” he said.
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“We are committed to serving our community and understand the concerns around video.
“I expect all police department employees to perform their duties with dignity and respect in the community for which we are hired.”