A day earlier, Melody Cooper had tweeted a video taken by her brother Christian Cooper, a Black birdwatcher out birding in New York Citys Central Park, when a white woman called 911 and made a false claim that an African-American man was threatening her life.
Hassan and a colleague, Zak Ahmed, recorded the incident and shared two videos on Instagram, showing the man also threatening to call 911.
The impact of these videosalong with several other clips showing racial discrimination, police brutality and violencehas helped give rise to one of the largest civil rights movements in recent history.
Imagine if Martin Luther King Jr. had a Facebook, author and activist Kimberly Jones says of social medias power, and the way in which information could have been sent out the opportunity to view and see things how they authentically were.
The protests in turn represent a movement thats both generations old in its presence and contemporary in its practicesthe use of technology and social media platforms to amplify messaging and inform both media and cultural narratives.
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