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Submission + - Carrie Fisher suffers major heart attack

Submitted by dcsmith on Friday December 23, 2016 @06:04PM

dcsmith writes: Fisher, world-famous for playing Princess Leia in the blockbuster franchise, was rushed to a local hospital after suffering full cardiac arrest. Her condition, sources said, was "not good."

Submission + - Washington, D.C. Police affirm citizens' right to record police officers 1

Submitted by dcsmith on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @03:35PM

dcsmith writes: Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department Chief Cathy Lanier says that "A bystander has the same right to take photographs or make recordings as a member of the media", and backs it up with a General Order to her Department

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) recognizes that members of the general public have a First Amendment right to video record, photograph, and/or audio record MPD members while MPD members are conducting official business or while acting in an official capacity in any public space, unless such recordings interfere with police activity.

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