Cat filter blunder adds bizarre twist to double murder press conference
Like an episode of Black Mirror, Canadian police live-streamed a press conference on Facebook about a double homicide using a filter that made an officer appear to be a feline/homo sapiens hybrid.
A spokesman for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police of British Columbia apologised for the "technical difficulties", and explained that an "automatic setting" on Facebook Live had been switched on.
A reporter used Twitter to alert the police about the cat filter:
The B.C. RCMP are giving a press conference on the two people murdered on the Alaska Highway, and they have the cat ear filter on. pic.twitter.com/j8GvkvKA4u
— Tyler Dawson (@tylerrdawson) July 19, 2019
RCMP response re having cat ears filter on their press conference live cast regarding two people murdered on the Alaska highway #RCMPhttps://t.co/yaOvgT5mf6
— Mercedes Stephenson (@MercedesGlobal) July 19, 2019
The press conference addressed the apparent double murder of American Chynna Noelle Deese, 24, who was visiting her Australian boyfriend, Lucas Robertson Fowler, 23, in Canada for vacation. Their bodies were found July 15 on a remote motorway in British Columbia.
Police have asked anyone with information to contact them.
#NorthernRockies#EDivision(B.C.) - Update: Suspicious Death Investigation Continues https://t.co/dNX7feJIG2pic.twitter.com/53bpVMqDJI
— BCRCMP (@BCRCMP) July 19, 2019
The cat filter blunder was particularly painful given the nature of the tragedy addressed in the press conference. However, such an error has happened before. In June, a regional minister in northwest Pakistan made a similar cat filter error during a Facebook press conference.
- This article first appeared on HuffPost
