Lego stops police from using toy heads to hide suspects’ identities | US News [Video]

Lego has told a police department to stop using their toy heads to protect the identity of suspects on social media.

Murrieta Police Department in California had been posting photos on Instagram of captured suspects with their faces covered by a Lego head.

But Lego wasn’t too pleased and have put a stop to it.

The police department said in a statement: ‘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 understand and will comply with.’

Murrieta PD had photoshopped the Lego heads onto various suspects in both mug shots and photos of them while they were being arrested or shortly after.

The images often came with a humorous caption. In one, the force says officers had won a game of ‘hide and seek’ with the thief.

‘Fortunately for the officers, they were able …