Both of these are useful of course, and complimentary. Without knowing much about cells, the carefully laid out diagram is much more helpful in learning a bit about what the hell a cell is. Of course, if you only saw the diagram you would be missing other crucial context.
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Videos of (eg) police shootings are great because historically police controlled narratives around police violence; people got to see a diagram of a cell drawn by cells. Very tidy, very helpful, and in this case deeply misleading Video makes such authorial abuses difficult
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at the same time, videos are really not complete evidence; they suppress information and elide context
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Blake was repeatedly shot in the back . . . maybe carrying a knife, after someone reported a violent rape (not depicted) Floyd died while a cop kneeled on him . . . with vast quantities of fentanyl in his system (not depicted)
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Replying to @eigenrobot
This misses the point. The outrage is that Floyd died with a knee on his neck regardless of whether that's what killed him or not. It's not about the facts, it's about the impunity of the police and the indignity they impose on people.
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Replying to @mattparlmer
its not over police brutality thats just the schelling point
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Where is it not about police brutality? Cops started abusing people at the initial mostly peaceful protests and then shit kicked off. It's the whole root of the problem. People who aren't out there read this as a national partisan thing when it really isn't.
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This is a thousand communities rejecting their own awful local cops at once, the affiliation with partisan jerseys disappears as soon as you get below the top-line press coverage or the infrequent throwaway chant about Trump. This is local animosities playing out.
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