Lego Asks U.S. Police To Stop Sticking Minifig Heads On Suspects Faces [Video]

A police department in California that started obscuring its suspects’ faces with Lego heads will cease the practice after the toy company reportedly reached out and told it to please stop.

The Murrieta Police Department in California has been hiding the faces of its arrested suspects for years, often in a variety of ways. Last year, for instance, the police department Photoshopped the faces of Shrek and Donkey onto two people it arrested for allegedly stealing $US1,800 worth of merchandise from Target. The department’s recent practice of sticking Lego heads, which often boast comical expressions, on the faces of people it arrests didn’t make everyone laugh, though.

Murrieta Police Department Lt. Jeremy Durrant told Fox News last Friday that it would stop using Lego heads in suspect photos, which it shares to social media, after being contacted by Lego.

“The Lego Group reached out to us and respectfully asked us to refrain from using their intellectual property in our social media content which of course we …