Kristen Bell was referred to as out Monday for images that sheriff’s deputies on the Lancaster Station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division shared over the weekend.

The pictures present the previous star of The Good Place smiling alongside the deputies, along with her arms round them, and, in one of many two photographs, flashing a thumbs up.

They defined within the caption, “At the moment, we had absolutely the pleasure of assembly @KristenBell, who was palms down, the kindest human ever. There really by no means is a boring second at Lancaster!”

Folks had been fast to slam Bell for showing to have made buddies with a division discovered to incorporate a number of gang-like teams who, in keeping with the Los Angeles Instances, have been “accused of glorifying violence and whose members have price taxpayers tens of tens of millions of {dollars} in authorized payouts.” They’ve additionally been accused of racist conduct.

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Commenters stated seeing the images “sucks a lot.” They identified that Bell is a landlord and urged that that was why she had been pleasant to deputies. 

Yahoo Leisure has reached out to a rep for Bell for remark.

Previously, Bell has publicly supported the Black Lives Matter motion. She and her husband, Dax Shepard, have vowed to lift their daughters to be anti-racist. Bell has co-authored a kids’s e book, The World Wants Extra Purple Folks, which sat atop the New York Instances Finest Vendor Listing when it was launched final yr. It is about “embracing what makes YOU particular whereas discovering frequent floor with these round you.” And “seeking to attain past the political divide of pink and blue.” A sequel, The World Wants Extra Purple Faculties, is scheduled to be launched June 21, 2022.