Case Study 5.3: Confirming the Location and Content of a Video Christoph Koettl is the emergency response manager at Amnesty International USA. He specializes in utilizing satellite imagery, mobile technology and citizen media for human rights research and advocacy. His expertise is in international humanitarian law, conflict analysis, crisis mapping and video validation, and he is a regular speaker on technology and human rights, including at SXSW 20141. He has testified on war crimes in Sri Lanka before the United States Congress. Numerous national and international media, including AP, BBC, CNN, Al Jazeera and Reuters, cover his work regularly. He tweets at @ckoettl2. During the violent clashes in Cairo in August 2013 there was one particular YouTube video3 that received a lot of media attention. (The original video was subsequently removed from YouTube, but can be also viewed here4). The widely used description for this video, which for example appeared in the headline on a Washington Post5 blog post, was that protesters had pushed a police car off a bridge in Cairo. Violent behavior displayed by protesters is, of course, relevant when investigating disproportionate use of force6 by the police, as we at Amnesty International do. We also work to verify video as part of determining whether human rights abuses have occurred. As a result, this video represented important footage that needed careful review. 67