._jahan: If these videos are to be shared at all, let them be for the purpose of sentencing — not sympathy. That feels like a much more worthy mission. (via The ReidOut Blog)
'I think the need to watch someone be murdered is really around the spectacle of death and how we objectify Black people and their bodies and how we don’t see their humanity,' said Amber Sherman, who has emerged as a prominent voice in the protests that followed Nichols’ death. 'I think that just removes the humanity from us and continues to objectify us, and I think that’s one of the main reasons that police treat us like dogs in the streets.
There’s been a school of thought that says exposing the public — particularly, the white public — to the grotesqueness of these acts will jar people from their willful ignorance of anti-Black police violence.
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