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Are Police Playing Copyrighted Music to Prevent Live Streaming?
Loaded on May 15, 2021
by Anthony Accurso
published in Criminal Legal News
June, 2021, page 27
Filed under:
Tapes/Music.
Location:
California.
by Anthony Accurso
Police in Beverly Hills have picked-up a new trick, seemingly intended to avoid accountability: playing copyrighted music when being filmed by citizens.
Sennett Devermont is a well-known, LA-area activist with over 300,000 followers in Instagram.
He went to the Beverly Hills PD office …
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