The city of Minneapolis posted a police recruitment commercial this week as part of its $950,000 marketing campaign, but there was one problem — a 2-second clip showed footage of a street in an American city that was not Minneapolis.
Charlie Rybak, co-founder of Minneapolis Voices, discovered the discrepancy and pointed it out on social media. He thinks it's a clip of Baltimore.
"I immediately realized that it looked unfamiliar, because Minneapolis has very few row houses," Rybak told the Star Tribune. "If we're going to pay someone $1 million of taxpayer money to create a video, the least we could ask them to do is include images of Minneapolis in it."
A spokesperson for Accenture didn't say what city was shown in the footage, only that it was stock footage "tagged for several cities, including Minneapolis."
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