"Yesterday afternoon, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted a piece of disgusting propaganda that glorifies the concept of a militarized police state forcefully entering people's homes and businesses and leading them away in handcuffs and zip ties - all set to the classic Pokémon theme song and using numerous pieces of obviously copyrighted imagery from the '90s TV show."
""Even if I was still at the company I wouldn't touch this, and I'm the most trigger-happy CLO [Chief Legal Officer] I've ever met. This will blow over in a couple of days and they'll be happy to let it,""
""Many of their execs in the USA are on green cards," he said."
DHS posted a video using the classic Pokémon theme and copyrighted 1990s imagery that depicts a militarized police force entering homes and businesses and leading people away in handcuffs and zip ties. Don McGowan, former chief legal officer of The Pokémon Company, said he would not pursue legal action even if he remained at the company and predicted the matter would blow over. McGowan cited that many Pokémon Company executives in the U.S. hold green cards and suggested the company prefers to avoid press attention. McGowan previously worked nearly 12 years at The Pokémon Company and at Bungie and Microsoft.
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