Minnesota Woman Fights for Right to Film Kids at Parks
An Eighth Circuit panel was skeptical of a local ordinance requiring photographers to get permission to film children in public.
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Chicago Releases Video of Cop Fatally Shooting 13-Year-Old Boy
An independent agency charged with investigating police misconduct in Chicago released body-camera videos showing the shooting that killed a seventh-grader two weeks ago.
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Pakistan Lifts Weekslong Ban on TikTok Over Racy Content
Pakistan’s media regulatory agency on Thursday reinstated access to the Chinese video service TikTok, after a court banned it weeks ago and urged authorities to ensure that it carried no “vulgar” content.
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2nd Circuit Blesses Vimeo Clamp on Gay-Conversion Content
The federal panel endorsed immunity for the website, which had banned a pastor over videos in which he identified as a “former homosexual.”
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Cellphone Evidence
A New Jersey state appeals court overturned a man’s assault conviction as unjust after the trial court refused to allow the jury to see a cellphone video of the defendant’s family’s interaction with police at the scene of the crime. The video directly rebutted the prosecutor’s claim that family members lied about their attempt to speak to the police, and contradicted police claims that they thoroughly canvassed the area for witnesses.
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FBI Releases New Video After Bombs Left at RNC, DNC Offices
The FBI has released new video showing someone placing two pipe bombs outside the offices of the Republican and Democratic national committees the night before the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol.
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Hiccups as Virginia Lawmakers Adapt to Legislating by Zoom
Covid-19 tangles the daily routines of the tradition-bound Virginia General Assembly.
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No Kidding: Video Calls With Goats Boost British Farm
A British farmer came up with a jokey idea to rent out her goats to liven up video call meetings — and found an unexpected source of lockdown income.
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Al-Qaida’s Yemen Leader Appears in Video Despite UN Report of Arrest
The leader of Al-Qaeda’s branch in Yemen appears to be still at large despite a United Nations report which claimed he had been under arrest for months, the SITE Intelligence Group and two local tribal leaders said Thursday after he was seen in a video released by the jihadist group.
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Judge Orders San Francisco to Unseal Video of Police Beating
The city’s decision to release portions of recordings of an officer beating a suspect with a baton undercut its arguments for keeping the rest of the videos sealed, a judge said.
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Vimeo Ban Against ‘Formerly Gay’ Pastor Likely to Survive Appeal
A pastor who calls himself a “former homosexual” appeared unlikely Thursday to win a second chance at suing the website Vimeo for removing his posts about conversion therapy.
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Fight to Block Gay Marriage Trial Video Hits Ninth Circuit
Fighting to block the release of video of a landmark trial that overturned California’s ban on same-sex marriage, a lawyer told the Ninth Circuit on Monday that a judge’s promise trumps the public’s interest in accessing court records.
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Ohio Justices OK Release of Video Showing Judge Being Shot
The Ohio Supreme Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that footage from a courthouse’s exterior camera that captured a judge being shot should be released under the state’s public records law.
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Twitter Boots Bannon Over Calls to Decapitate Fauci and Wray
Calling for the beheading of Dr. Anthony Fauci went too far, Twitter told Steve Bannon on Friday, permanently banning the former White House strategist from its page.
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Fourth Circuit Hears Debate Over Prison Video Calls for Deaf
A Fourth Circuit panel heard arguments Thursday over whether a North Carolina prison violated a deaf civil detainee’s First Amendment rights by not allowing him to use a videophone to contact people on the outside.
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Texas Sheriff Accused of Destroying Video of Black Motorist’s Death
An Austin-area sheriff was arrested Monday and booked into his own jail for the alleged destruction of video recorded by police docuseries “Live PD” of the chase and death of unarmed Black motorist Javier Ambler last year.
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TikTok Says Coordinated Attack Behind Suicide Clip Uploads
TikTok says a video of a man apparently taking his own life that circulated on its platform was spread deliberately by a group of users working together.
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TikTok Owner Picks Oracle Over Microsoft as US Tech Partner
The owner of TikTok has chosen Oracle over Microsoft as the American tech partner that could help keep the popular video-sharing app running in the U.S., according to a person familiar with the deal who was not authorized to speak publicly about it.
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Georgia Hearing on Voting Machines Interrupted by Porn, 9/11 Photos
Images of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack, porn and swastikas interrupted a federal hearing in a lawsuit challenging Georgia’s voting machines Friday, bringing the live Zoom session to a temporary halt.
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