do videos of Black folks dying on camera help or harm?

[BlackRain]

I also think people sharing the videos in spite of family member's often wishes to not have the videos all over the place is crazy. It's one thing to want to get your point across. It's another to intentionally subject a family to more pain in order to prove said point.

 

[5th Letter]

individual cases have no bearing on society as a whole

and therein lies the issue

If we got justice then we wouldn’t need viral videos showing murders.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

I also think people sharing the videos in spite of family member's often wishes to not have the videos all over the place is crazy. It's one thing to want to get your point across. It's another to intentionally subject a family to more pain in order to prove said point.

It’s the world we live in today

 

[BlackRain]

It’s the world we live in today

Oh i'm aware and accept that. It's just fucked up

 

[Race Jones]

Stopped watching them years ago. Too much of a bad trigger. I get the thought process behind the "why" people feel the need to share them but ultimately unless they result in some sort of actual consequences, which they rarely if ever do, then it's pointless and just fodder for racist assholes to create memes and gifs to use.

couldnt have said it better.

i remember venturing into racist white twitter one day after being harrassed by some troll and they had so many memes of alton sterling.

i was sick and disgusted.

 

[Race Jones]

If we got justice then we wouldn’t need viral videos showing murders.

you just said the videos provide justice

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Mildly related

 

[Race Jones]

I also think people sharing the videos in spite of family member's often wishes to not have the videos all over the place is crazy. It's one thing to want to get your point across. It's another to intentionally subject a family to more pain in order to prove said point.

THIS!!!!!!

 

[5th Letter]

you just said the videos provide justice

We were having a productive conversation don’t start trolling now.

 

[Race Jones]

Lol I ain’t falling for it we basically saying the same and the Labuan McDonald led to an investigation of the CPD by the Justice Department... idk what conclusion they arrived to though I’d need to look it up

???

 

[Race Jones]

We were having a productive conversation don’t start trolling now.

trolling?

 

[Race Jones]

i hate when yall reduce my thoughts to trolling, its so fucking stupid and dismissive.

“oh you trolling now” lmao why? because i fed your line back to you?

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

???

U asked if the vid led to some internal probe I answered with The Laquan McDonald shit led to an investigation of the CPD by the Department of Justice

 

[5th Letter]

trolling?

In some cases if it weren’t for the video going viral there would not have been any justice.

 

[5th Letter]

i hate when yall reduce my thoughts to trolling, its so fucking stupid and dismissive.

“oh you trolling now” lmao why? because i fed your line back to you?

This is what I said.
“We’ve had injustices but we’ve had our fair share of justice because their actions were leaked.

Your response was this.
“you just said the videos provide justice”

That’s trolling.

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

Simply put there are positive and negative ramifications to the proliferation of videos

 

[5th Letter]

We’re not in a position where we control the narrative. If we did then our situation would be far better.

 

[Dwayne]

Yes. Having proof is needed at all times for everything

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

“ he had a gun” .......

 

[Elzo69Renaissance]

“ I feared for my life” ; “ he was the aggressor “ “ self defense”


roll the tape