Kicker: Minifigure mugshots

YOUTUBE: Hi, buddy. I’m your friendly neighborhood police officer.

NICK EICHER, HOST: Well, it’s not quite like the police in The Lego Movie. It’s more the other way around.

A real California police department was attempting a friendly tweak of a new state law about mugshots.

Don’t you know it’s illegal now in California to put suspects up on social media.

So the Murrieta PD photoshopped Lego blocks in the place of the mugshot face and posted those pics online.

The images, of course, went viral. But Lego was not amused, and they sicced bad cop on Murrieta’s finest.

Quoting the department now, “Lego respectfully asked us to refrain from using their intellectual property in our social media content, which, of course, we understand and will comply with.”

MARY REICHARD, HOST: Everything is awesome.

EICHER: It’s The World and Everything in It

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