"Bystander videos, like the ones taken of Pretti, have played a key role for decades in informing the public when law enforcement kills or injures people. Videos shared online are now central to shaping public perception and understanding of events, experts said. "It's still all about the videos," said Darrell M. West, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. "People would say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, if that's true, a video might be worth 100,000 words.""
"George Holliday grabbed his Sony Handycam, recorded for about nine minutes, and sent the video to KTLA, a local TV station. News stations around the country picked up the footage. The officers were acquitted, which spurred the 1992 LA riots. Almost two decades later, in 2009, grainy videos showed Oscar Grant, a 22-year-old Black man, being shot and killed by a Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) officer in Oakland, Calif., in what appeared to be an unprovoked attack."
Millions of people viewed multiple-angle social-media videos of 37-year-old Alex Pretti's death after federal immigration agents shot and killed him in Minneapolis. Bystander videos have informed the public for decades when law enforcement kills or injures people and now circulate quickly across platforms, enabling real-time access and greater government transparency. Technological changes have allowed activists and bystanders to film and disseminate footage widely. Videos strongly shape public perception and understanding, but they do not capture every detail or context, and experts caution that video evidence alone may be incomplete.
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