A federal judge ordered Charlotte-Mecklenburg police Monday not to release any video or audio related to the federal case involving Iryna Zarutska’s August 2025 killing on the city’s light rail transit line.
The order arrived after a judge in state court had issued an order earlier in the day compelling police to release recordings to WSOC television.
“The Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department is ORDERED to not disclose any audio or video related to this case, including the body-worn camera footage and/or the 911 calls, and/or their contents, directly or indirectly to any third-party, including WSOC-TV, until further order of this Court,” US Magistrate Judge David Keesler wrote in his three-page order…