For two years, a North Carolina woman has sought to publicly share video footage that shows an N.C. State Highway Patrol trooper fatally shooting her two trained dogs during a car break-in on her property in 2024.
An appeals court on Wednesday upheld a decision saying she can’t.
Lydia Nikac, a professional K-9 police dog trainer in Washington, N.C., had challenged a trial court’s 2025 decision granting her access to the trooper’s dashcam footage but barring her from publicly releasing it…