Opinion by Karen Attiah: The endless video loop of Black death is doing more harm than good
On Jan. 27, Memphis police released video of theat the hands of five Black officers. Many of my Black friends and media colleagues said publicly that they would not watch the video and that Black people especially should resist the pressure to watch yet another video of someone who looks like us dying on camera.Follow
Early in my career, I was taught that valiant and noble journalists must bear witness, so we can speak truth to power and hold the powerful accountable. The inherent promise was that if we could shed light on crimes, and if the public could see, the system would change. Video taken by police body cameras and quick-thinking bystanders now offers the public even more opportunities to bear witness to police brutality. But increasingly, I find it less ethically correct to traffic in images of Black death for the sake of imagined awareness — specifically, White awareness.
Nearly a decade after the police killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo. — when video confirmed that Brown lay dead in the street for — and after massive racial justice protests following the police murder of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020, not only is our policing culture as corrupt and broken as ever, it has been reinforced by both conservatives and liberals.
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