In National unsettling news, Brussels, Belgium was issued the highest level terror alert this past Saturday (11/21), and advised citizens to stay inside as a police-imposed lockdown took hold of the city. Citizens were urged not to use social media that connected them to their whereabouts, as one of the Paris attackers was/is suspected to be on the loose in Belgium.
Upon police request for citizens to stay inside and not tweet their whereabouts, even under threat of attack, the people of Belgium began posting cat pictures on Twitter.
This looks to be the first cat-related #BrusselsLockdown tweet:
#BrusselsLockdown So here is a picture of a cat. Much more peacefull. pic.twitter.com/HmDRbxA67T
— Hugo Janssen (@Hoguhugo) November 22, 2015
Then it was followed by:
so now we wait. #BrusselsLockdown pic.twitter.com/xUhmh1mlPm — sjeel (@whatkindafukery) November 22, 2015
You can’t keep hiding. #BrusselsLockdown pic.twitter.com/4ls1e9qB3s
— Lore Vonck (@lorevonck) November 22, 2015
Asked not to tweet details of anti-terrorism raids, Belgians tweet things like this instead: #BrusselsLockdown pic.twitter.com/wY1ft3KLUj — max seddon (@maxseddon) November 22, 2015
Post cat pics, not police movements #BrusselsLockdown #BelgianSurrealism pic.twitter.com/GYfzY65Qof
— Yves-Alexandre (@yvesalexandre) November 22, 2015
#BrusselsLockdown - because we can’t hear your terrorism over the sound of our kittehs pic.twitter.com/c0F2y9PlMz — Helen Ingram (@drhingram) November 22, 2015
May the force be with us. #BrusselsLockdown pic.twitter.com/m9OuEVhfXS — TineEeckhout (@TineEeckhout) November 22, 2015
https://t.co/w5LF7a5qNa when searching for the latest news on #BrusselsLockdown! pic.twitter.com/vy9etNyHmk — Ruta Ly (@rutaly) November 22, 2015
May the US remember this in our next time of crisis.
Related Reading:
Bloomberg: BRUSSELS EXTENDS LOCKDOWN AS U.S. ISSUES TERROR ALERT
The World Post: BRUSSELS AT HIGHEST TERROR ALERT OVER ‘SERIOUS AND IMMINENT THREAT’
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