Top Ten Crooked Cop Do's and Don'ts:
#1 -- Be careful not to use copyrighted materials when tampering with your video evidence!

Swedish TV-channels SVT and TV4 are jointly pressing charges against the police for violating copyright restrictions as a result of falsifying evidence by using and manipulating sequences taken from both channels.

This article from the InterActivist Info Exchange has the full story and direct links to all of the video footage in question:

Swedish Cops Fake Video Evidence in Gothenburg Prosecutions & Face Copyright Infringement Claims .

hydrarchist writes: "According to yelah.net, Swedish Police have been accused of copyright infringement by two national television stations. The allegations arose subsequent to a documentary screened last week on the alteration of evidence in a trial against a demonstrator who was shot and seriously injured during the European Union Summit in Gothenburg this summer. The 19 year old youth, Hannes Westerburg, was prosecuted for rioting offenses and convicted last month. The incident was captured by a number of video cameramen on the scene. Both prosecution and defense received the materials on tape. As the video footage documenting the shooting of Hannes Westerberg did not adequately support the police's version of events, they manipulated the evidence, creating a montage which made it appear that a sole rioter was in fact part of a mob. They also replaced the sound track with audio recorded elsewhere to once again give the impression that Westerberg was part of a large and threatening crowd. State justification for the shooting rests upon the claim that it was necessary in order to protect an injured policeman from further attack, a claim squarely refuted by the evidence.

This manipulation was chronicled in a documentary on Swedish television last week, which included interviews with the Belgian videographer who shot the most comprehensive footage of the incident (in English). He confirms that the audio track has been altered. The TV program is available in its entirety on the web, with the interview appearing towards the end of the second segment. http://www.svt.se/granskning/video/2001/1106/gbg2.ram.