The term “foul play” has re-defined itself, yet again.
A story published on Capital New York reported that as many as 85 IP addresses were connected to 1 Police Plaza, the headquarters of the New York City Police Department. The connected IP addresses twisted content that described some of the most heinous and high-profile cases of police brutality, including Black victims Eric Garner, Sean Bell, and Amadou Diallo.
More changes were made to the wikipedia entries as a means of covering NYPD corruption, such as stop-and-frisk, and the top officials of the NYPD.
One of the edits were altered from “Garner raised both his arms in the air” to “Garner flailed his arms about as he spoke.” Another edit read “push Garner’s face into the sidewalk” into “push Garner’s head down into the sidewalk.” Capital New York also revealed that the word “chokehold” was replaced two times to “chokehold or headlock” and into “respiratory distress.”
