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Law Enforcement Asked Google to “Remove Videos of Police Brutality”

January 5, 2012 at 11:50 AM Leave a comment

Check out this Google “Transparency Report:”

We received a request from a local law enforcement agency to remove YouTube videos of police brutality, which we did not remove. Separately, we received requests from a different local law enforcement agency for removal of videos allegedly defaming law enforcement officials. We did not comply with those requests, which we have categorized in this Report as defamation requests.

Thanks to Google for not complying with the request but woohah, it’s pretty darn scary that a “law enforcement agency” would make a request directly in conflict with laws regarding freedom of speech. If they’re embarrassed about their acts of police brutality, maybe they shouldn’t beat people anymore, rather than attempt to delete evidence that they did.

Entry filed under: Laws / Judiciary, Repression, We the People. Tags: freedom of speech, police brutality.