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MINNEAPOLIS - Police are looking into a viral video that appears to show a group of teenage boys engaged in a mugging spree in Minneapolis and St. Paul, while showing anything but remorse.

The YouTube video shows the boys smiling as they attack a man on a bike, a jogger and some young kids.

The "stars" of the video, which was posted on YouTube but was subsequently removed Tuesday afternoon, make no attempt to hide their identities.

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MINNEAPOLIS - The FBI will be reviewing dash cam video of a Minneapolis police officer using a Taser on a man as a possible civil rights violation, according to a statement released by the Minneapolis police chief Tuesday evening.

Chief Tim Dolan said the Minneapolis City Attorney will also review the case for possible criminal charges against the officer.

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MINNEAPOLIS - Did police use excessive force during an incident with a Minnesota man after they pulled him over for speeding?

Minneapolis Police Chief Tim Dolan told the Star-Tribune that he plans to ask for help from the FBI in investigating a disturbing police video that shows 42-year-old Darryl Jenkins being beaten by as many as six police officers. Jenkins was Tasered several times and beaten so badly he defecated on himself and officers, according to his lawyer, Paul Edlund.

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NEW YORK - If you share your music online, perhaps you should start saving now.

Last week we reported on a Minnesota mom who defended herself against the recording industry and got slapped with $1.92 million in fines for sharing 24 songs over the Internet.

Today, Jammie Thomas-Rasset was on CBS' The Early Show to make her case.

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MINNEAPOLIS - $1.92 million. That's the amount a federal jury ruled Thursday that a Minnesota mom who shared music on the Internet must pay the world's four largest record companies. That's $80,000 for each of the 24 songs she was charged with sharing.

“There's no way they're ever going to get that,” said Jammie Thomas-Rasset, a 32-year-old mother of four from the central Minnesota city of Brainerd. “I'm a mom, limited means, so I'm not going to worry about it now.”

Aside from the enormous sum awarded, Thomas-Rasset's case is unusual in that it is national's only file-sharing case to have gone to trial, not once, but twice.

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