Facebook Ad Uses Photo from Hoboken SWAT Team Hooters Scandal
An ad on Facebook seeking to recruit DEA agents was accompanied by a not-so-law-abiding photograph of a Hooters waitress holding a weapon, accompanied by a law-enforcement officer. The photo likely puzzled anyone who saw it, regardless of where they live. But for residents of Hoboken, N.J. — home of the editor of WebNewser, as well as a friend who passed along a screen grab of the ad — the photo held special significance.
In November 2007, the SWAT team of the Hoboken Police Department was permanently disbanded in the wake of embarrassing photos taken in Louisiana in 2006, when the Hoboken SWAT team traveled there to aid in clean-up efforts after Hurricane Katrina.
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