Police blotter items (so far) this weekend
A fire in Tétreaultville overnight destroyed two residential buildings. TVA has the pictures.
Some really smart dudes showing off their guns and probably stolen money on Snapchat were raided by the police tactical squad at a party this week. There were six arrests and the men will face weapons charges. (As they like to say on reddit: play stupid games, win stupid prizes.)
A man delivering a parcel Friday morning in Rosemont apparently got into a fight with the resident and was stabbed. There’s probably more to this story than we’re told here.
Chris 13:01 on 2020-06-13 Permalink
Re: Snapchat guns: why do the media write such stories but not actually include or link to the video in question?!?
Blork 13:04 on 2020-06-13 Permalink
Likely because it needs a Snapchat login to see, and requires linking to a specfic person’s account, and such walled-garden links are against publications’ policies.
Blork 13:04 on 2020-06-13 Permalink
…but would it have killed them to include a few screen grabs?
Chris 13:07 on 2020-06-13 Permalink
IIRC news media are exempt from various copyright laws, they could probably just copy the video from snapshat and host it themselves. But yeah, a few screengrabs would do.
Maybe they’re wanting to protect privacy, innocent until guilty, etc. But these people posted the video publicly, so…
Kevin 20:27 on 2020-06-13 Permalink
Chris
Maybe you are thinking of fair use doctrine? But that typically allows a few seconds of video from a newsworthy event posted by someone else.
Chris 13:36 on 2020-06-14 Permalink
Kevin, perhaps that’s what I’m thinking of. If so, it sounds like it could apply in this situation, no?
Kevin 10:19 on 2020-06-15 Permalink
Chris,
It would apply. But without knowing anything about how La Presse works, I can see several reasons why they don’t have photos:
1) the post is gone
2) division of duties at the newspaper (i.e. the writer’s not allowed to grab the photos from snapchat)
3) The writer heard about this after the fact and wrote the story, and never even saw the snapchat post in question.
and so on