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• Author: Oliver, Charles
• Position: Text messages deleted from government phones during George Floyd protest, Htet Htet Khine case in Myanmar, ads for meat banned in Haarlem, Netherlands

Philadelphia Brewing Company customers will have to wait to sample the company's Harvest from the Hood pale ale. City workers cut down the brewery's hops after they'd been growing for six months, even though a building inspector had previously verified that it was a garden. "Regrettably, due to miscommunication and staff error, the hops were removed as they were initially marked as a violation as it appeared the lot was overgrown," said a city spokesperson.

Someone manually deleted 191 text messages from the phone of Seattle's thenmayor, Jenny Durkan, following the 2020 protests in response to the death of George Floyd. That's one finding from a forensic report included in a lawsuit filed by business owners and residents over damages during those protests. The report also found "factory resets" were done on the phones of six other city officials, including the police chief and the fire chief, Harold Scoggins, leading to the deletions of thousands of other text messages. Those texts should have been preserved under both state public records law and legal evidence rules.

A court in Myanmar has given a BBC journalist a second sentence of three years of hard labor for making contact with an outlawed pro-democracy group. Htet Htet Khine received her first three-year prison sentence on September 15 for violating a law barring "incitement" and "false news." According to the BBC, she had been traveling the country showing the impacts of Myanmar's internal conflicts. Since a military coup in 2021, the government has closed 12 media outlets and arrested 142 journalists.

The government of Haarlem, Netherlands, has banned ads for meat on buses and bus shelters and any other government-owned spaces. The ban also covers ads for fossil fuels, for vehicles with internal combustion engines, and for holiday flights. The move is aimed at reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.

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