Cat Filter Blunder Adds Bizarre Twist To Double Homicide Press Conference
Like an episode of “Black Mirror,” Canadian police livestreamed 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 apologized for the “technical difficulties,” and explained that an “automatic setting” on Facebook Live had been switched on. The press conference was re-recorded without the cat filter ― which added whiskers and ears to the officer ― and the new version was posted to Facebook Friday.
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 #RCMP https://t.co/yaOvgT5mf6
— Mercedes Stephenson (@MercedesGlobal) July 19, 2019
The press conference addressed the apparent double homicide 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 highway in British Columbia.
Police have asked anyone with information to contact them.
#NorthernRockies #EDivision(B.C.) - Update: Suspicious Death Investigation Continues https://t.co/dNX7feJIG2 pic.twitter.com/53bpVMqDJI
— BCRCMP (@BCRCMP) July 19, 2019
The cat filter blunder was particularly painful, given the subject 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.
Here’s the re-recorded press conference from the RCMP:
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