Consider if footage existed of the deceased being hit by the sanitation truck – the original injury that sent Mr. Chanko to the hospital. Could a news report a

Consider if footage existed of the deceased being hit by the sanitation truck – the original injury that sent Mr. Chanko to the hospital. Could a news report about vehicle-pedestrian accidents use that footage, even without the victim's permission? I suspect probably so, for its illustrative value. As a matter of sensitivity to viewers or the victim's family, they might blur any particularly gory details, or the precise identifying characteristics of the victim or others involved. And that's roughly what they did in the hospital, too. The crew was filming in an area they had permission to, and blurred identifying details. A very small number of people – who knew the incident, the hospital, the doctor, the victim – could work out who was being shown. That's emotionally draining, perhaps, but I'm not sure it's legally tortious, and requiring a court-enforced remedy.