How Does Social Media Affect Police Brutality?
" Hey, have you watched these police officers getting off for these killings?' Lisa said to Tonya through Facebook messenger. In the 1960's the conversation of police brutality was not openly discussed as freely as it is today. Today we can sit at our local Starbucks and watch police brutality and shootings happening in a different state minutes after happening through social media. Once instant messaging was introduced to the public, social site such as AOL messenger, Myspace, Facebook and Instagram started to arise. These sites allow people to be aware of news before it is broadcasted by news media. Whereas the radio and television were the main source to gather information about police brutality, today social media is the first source to obtain information about brutality. Bloody Sunday, protesting march from Selma Alabama to Montgomery Alabama for African American voting right, was a notorious historical event broadcasted in 1965 over radio and television as to where Freddie Gray, killed in police custody due to a broken neck, and Tamir Rice, shot by an officer while at the park swinging playing with a toy gun, were all over every social media site and news broadcast. As the march from Selma to
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Due to the neglect, Freddie Gray was later pronounced deceased. This information incorporated with other police and civilian incidents caused yet another social media uproar within the Black American community. Now, there was not video of this incident but the family was able to post on social sites about the untimely death of their family member in police custody due to unnecessary force. Many others have recorded videos, example: Facebook live, to show what was happening. In the case of Philando Castile, we watched the shooting leading to his death by watching Facebook live. Which was being recorded by his girlfriend during a traffic
Due to the neglect, Freddie Gray was later pronounced deceased. This information incorporated with other police and civilian incidents caused yet another social media uproar within the Black American community. Now, there was not video of this incident but the family was able to post on social sites about the untimely death of their family member in police custody due to unnecessary force. Many others have recorded videos, example: Facebook live, to show what was happening. In the case of Philando Castile, we watched the shooting leading to his death by watching Facebook live. Which was being recorded by his girlfriend during a traffic