EDIT: Here's the story: (again, how dumb do you have to be?)
"Victoria Police has apologised for giving a running online commentary about evictions from a soccer game played in Melbourne last night.
Police used Twitter to update followers on how many people were being kicked out of the game between Melbourne Victory and Glasgow Celtic at AAMI Park.
One tweet read: 'Game over, Celtic 1, Police 14.'
Football Federation Australia (FFA) spokesman Kyle Patterson says the tweets were inappropriate.
"This is the era of social media where we all need to come to grips with the new norms, the new standards, the new nuances, but I suggest last night the nuances weren't right," he said.
Mr Patterson says the FFA has asked for an explanation.
"It has been received as provocative among football fans - both at the event and those following it," he said.
Inspector Mick Beattie, who directed police operations at the game, says had he known what was happening he would have stopped it.
"If any of this stuff had been run past me it would not have gone out," he said.
"I was advised that it was an attempt to be light and slightly humorous, obviously that has failed."
Fourteen people were ejected from the game out of a crowd of 20,000.
Melbourne Victory has established a working group with Victoria Police to foster a better relationship between soccer fans and police.
Victoria Police has also released a statement about the incident.
"Victoria Police regularly sends tweets in relation to major events including sporting events and significant police operations. Given the significance of last night's soccer match the Media Unit made the decision to send out specific tweets in relation the event," the statement read.
"A number of the tweets included information on the evictions from the ground.
"This is no different from information provided at other sporting events including the Ashes, where we gave information on the number of people who were removed from the MCG.
"At the time we received no feedback that people were unhappy with information being provided about evictions or other crowd behaviour."
The statement said the tweets were not meant to antagonise football fans.
"If people misunderstood our intent then that is regrettable. We certainly did not want to antagonise soccer fans who were generally well-behaved at last night's game," it said.
"This was never about soccer and again, we tweet from any number of high profile events and operations. It's about getting a safety message out.""
aspro said:
Is this in reply to their gloating about evicting people (most of whom would have been incited by the security and the police themselves), making fun of football and football fans, their inability to spell Celtic right, the very fact that the Victorian police have a twitter or because you think this thread is spam?
SPAM. Plus also the script blocker I use disables Twitter. Cut and Paste next time. SPAMMER.
Do you watch the Australian version of cops? I catch it now and then. It's amazing to me.
aspro said:SPAM. Plus also the script blocker I use disables Twitter. Cut and Paste next time. SPAMMER.
Do you watch the Australian version of cops? I catch it now and then. It's amazing to me.
You can't stand spam yet watch cops? I didn't even know there was an Australian version of Cops. Lucky me.
Also there is a difference between being succinct, and spamming.
I am mesmerized by COPS. If I'm flicking through and see COPS I become transfixed. It's my guilty TV pleasure. The Aussie one is great for two reasons:
1. As ludicrously over-the-top as U.S. sentencing is, in Australia it is completly lax. Both are wrong.
2. Aussie cops are amazingly casual about their jobs. They don't cuff people, they let people walk away from a crime scene and threaten to send them letters and they make no attempt to protect themsleves from concealed weapons. I may have battered-citizen syndrome from living in the states, and maybe it's cool that the cops here are so laid back, but it's still a shock to see.
I'm just messing with you about spamming. I just like yelling it at people.
Don't believe everything you see on television lol. They're more than happy to punch people without cause, hit unarmed people with batons, capsicum spray large groups of people when they're triyng to arrest one person and verbally abuse and threaten people with violence or arrest for no reason, drag handcuffed people headfirst down conrete stairs after choking them for awhile in a headlock and so forth. That's just what I've seen in person. As for second hand accounts they're all for beating up homeless people too (or at least used to be not too long ago), and as far as general knowledge goes they'll happily torture people with tazors, beat up aborigines, shoot children, and the like.
Of coure what you're talking about is the case too, but it's not like they're like that all the time in every situation. I can't imagine US police go about only abusing or killing people either (the latter of which you don't see on cops of course), but that's the way they're presented.
That's what I was thinking too, but then the way the cops act on US COPS is entirely consistent to how I saw them in their day-to-day (that is, they are not acting particularly different for the camera).
I guess it's more the lack of procedure and training more than the attitudes. In the US, even on routine traffic stops the cops go into SWAT mode, but here when I get pulled over they amble up to the car without any concern that they are in danger, they don't instruct you to turn off the vehicle, or put your hands on the wheel etc... (in short they are amateurs).
Don't get me started on how the indigenous are treated here.
aspro said:That's what I was thinking too, but then the way the cops act on US COPS is entirely consistent to how I saw them in their day-to-day (that is, they are not acting particularly different for the camera).
I guess it's more the lack of procedure and training more than the attitudes. In the US, even on routine traffic stops the cops go into SWAT mode, but here when I get pulled over they amble up to the car without any concern that they are in danger, they don't instruct you to turn off the vehicle, or put your hands on the wheel etc... (in short they are amateurs).
Don't get me started on how the indigenous are treated here.
Makes sense. Personally I prefer the latter.
In regards to the spam continue with the comments---it's the only way the posts will get any comments anyway. 
_Bear said:They learned the hard way here Aspro, people run them over, shoot them, beat them up, verbally abuse them. They learned to take every stop seriously or it might be their last.
I know, and I keep that in mind when I deal with them.
Not quite as bad as having to dodge their stray capsicum spray, but still. WTF.