BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KGET) — Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood said a social video creator “wanted air time” for a video about alleged rude experiences with a Bakersfield 911 dispatcher.
“Ninety percent of TikTok is not correct,” Youngblood said Thursday morning on 17 News at Sunrise.
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“If you want to make a complaint on any employee including dispatchers, there’s a mechanism to do that. If you go through TikTok, probably your motives are not to complain, you just want some air time,” Youngblood said.
Natalia Mount went viral this past week after she posted a video on the social media platform TikTok alleging that when she called 911 she was connected with a rude dispatcher.
Many other Bakersfield residents also shared their experiences online of the alleged dispatcher whose identity remains unknown.
Youngblood also discussed the ongoing investigation into Nancy Guthrie’s disappearance, the Zack Scrivner case and a drug bust in Rosamond.
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