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"DIY Dying: Video Activism as Archive, Commemoration and Evidence" offered for free access

Why Online Communities Are Suspicious of Law Enforcement

By IGI Global on Jul 7, 2016
Why Online Communities Are Suspicious Of Law Enforcement Today's technology has drastically changed the game for law enforcement programs around the world. Wearable cameras, dash cams and camera phones can now provide on-the-scene evidence for criminal cases and defense. Even in IGI Global's quaint chocolate town Hershey, Pennsylvania, cameras have provided significant evidence in the case of Hummelstown police Officer Lisa Mearkle.

In February 2016, Officer Mearkle shot unarmed suspect David Kassick twice in the back, killing him, with the dramatic scene documented on her taser video. The two-minute clip spread online like wildfire, and the online community fired back with fierce criticism of the officer's actions. The online video let people witness the conflict firsthand, causing reactions of skepticism and distrust. Mearkle was ultimately found not guilty, claiming that she feared for her life and thought the man was armed and reaching for a gun.

In an era where digital camera technologies are ubiquitous and embedded into everyday media practices, an emerging and steadily growing ‘genre’ of videos is being uploaded onto YouTube and similar audio-visual repositories. Cell phone photos and videos and semi-professionally edited productions by media activists, as well as established video collectives who systematically document political violence and police brutality, feed the news flow with stories told from a street perspective.

The IGI Global article "DIY Dying: Video Activism as Archive, Commemoration and Evidence", from the International Journal of E-Politics focuses on a unique segment of videos used as evidence: the commemorations of political martyrs. Author Tina Askanius of Lund University, Sweden, raises questions on the ways in which issues of visual evidence and truth claims are negotiated within the distinctive online context of YouTube.

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