Black Lives Matter: Can viral videos stop police brutality?
George Floyd's death might not have caused global outrage if it hadn't been filmed. But do viral videos actually reduce police abuse?For more than five minutes Darnella Frazier rambled on Facebook Live about the killing she had witnessed - repeating over and over again that she had video evidence.
In 2014, footage captured events leading up to the deaths of Eric Garner in New York and Laquan McDonald in Chicago. In fact, many cite the beating of Rodney King by Los Angeles police officers, captured on videotape in 1991, as one of the first"viral" police abuse videos - long before the social media era.
But Ms Richardson says rather than ushering in a brand new form of activism, new technology is simply being deployed for a much older purpose. "I wanted as many people to see it [as possible]," he says."I was six feet away ... when he got shot."
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