The officer's plan, however, appears to have been a misfire. The video captured by Burch and his organisation – the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project, which seeks to hold local police departments accountable – ended up amassing more than 680,000 views on Twitter by Friday morning (local time). A version uploaded to YouTube was still there Friday morning as well, with more than 110,000 views. Screenshot/washington post Sgt David Shelby pulled out his phone and started blaring Taylor Swift's 2014 hit single "Blank Space." The irony was not lost on the Alameda County sheriff's office. “The officer was trying to be a little smart, and it kind of backfired,” Sgt Ray Kelly, a sheriff's office spokesman, told