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Austin Wood

The Pokemon Company says the US government did not have permission to use Pokemon art and theme song in ICE promotional video

Detective Pikachu in interrogation room.

A recent video posted by the United States' Department of Homeland Security, featuring audio and art from the Pokemon series, was made without permission from The Pokemon Company, the company has now confirmed.

In a statement to Eurogamer, The Pokemon Company responded to the controversial video, which has been viewed tens of millions of times across various social media platforms, and which has been flooded with comments from users asking Nintendo – famously litigious and protective of its IP – to sue the DHS.

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