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  • 2020-07-22 (xsd:date)
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  • Does This Video Show Police Brutality in the US? (en)
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  • In the summer of 2020, the internet was flooded with videos and photographs showing acts of police violence as the United States saw a surge of protests against police brutality and racial injustice. Although many of these videos truly showed United States law enforcement engaging in acts of violence, occasionally a piece of footage would go viral that was either misleading or miscaptioned. That was the case on July 21, when a video showing multiple officers hitting a person while he lay on the ground racked up more than 2 million views: This is a genuine video of members of law enforcement beating a person on the street. However, this video was not taken in the United States, as many social media users inferred from the above-displayed caption. This video was actually taken in Belgrade, Serbia. On July 8, 2020, Serbian citizens gathered outside the National Assembly in Belgrade to protest the re-implementation of a curfew related to the COVID-19 pandemic. The protest quickly devolved into chaos as protesters broke into the assembly and police fired tear gas into the crowd. The BBC reported that far-right nationalists were blamed for storming the assembly, and Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic condemned law enforcement's use of excessive force. The BBC writes: The above-displayed video was included in a report about these protests from Radio Europe. It seems that the video originated with a tweet from The A 11 Initiative, a non-governmental organization that works to promote the economic and social rights of marginalized and discriminated groups: This video shows police violence in Serbia, not the United States, but that doesn't mean that such incidents have not taken place in America. At the end of May 2020, Jordan Uhl, a political consultant and activist in Washington, D.C., compiled several videos of police violence in the United States into one 2-minute clip: The New York Times reported that Uhl made this compilation to signal-boost the experiences of the protesters: (en)
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