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Florida Judge Blocks Paper From Publishing Video Showing Deputies Killing An Inmate (www.techdirt.com)

submitted 4 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to c/legalnews@lemmy.zip

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Call a right “enshrined” all you want, but if a judge decides it’s better to protect law enforcement officers from their own actions than to allow the public to view killings performed in the name of “public safety,” the public gets nothing. Neither do the people serving the public and providing them with information, like the Ocala Gazette, which was recently hit with an order forbidding them from publishing a jailhouse video it had legally obtained.

Case file: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25193608/no-1st-here-either.pdf

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[–] hate2bme@lemmy.world 16 points 4 months ago

Where is this video? Instead of publishing it they should just give it to someone that will.

[–] BrokenGlepnir@lemmy.world 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Florida used to be known for having the most expansive sunshine laws in the country. It's what made Florida man famous. It's so disappointing.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 4 points 4 months ago

Those are for shaming and mocking the accused, not the LEOs