powerful. it was social media that propelled the black lives matter movement onto a global stage. put your hands behind your back. i can t breathe. keep your hands where they are, please. yes, i will, sir. i ll keep my hands where they are. reporter: when cell phone images of unarmed african-americans killed by police went viral. the body of michael brown lays on that ground for 4 1/2 hours shocked america back its consciousness once again. it woke so many people up that thought emmett till was a figment of the past and not a very relevant figure of the present. emmett till is michael brown and tamir rice and sandra bland and eric garner, and all of those folks because they woke us up once again.
this is just an excuse to just go out there to rob and loot. and i know that s not true because i was just out there myself. there s police marching behind us. that s why social media was such an important tool for us because it allowed us to tell the truth unfiltered. why do you need me, white tv host from new york, to be the person that points a camera at your protesting? people got a lot more control over their own stories. and that s profound and powerful. it was social media that propelled the black lives matter movement onto a global stage. put your hands behind your back. i can t breathe. keep your hands where they are, please. yes, i will, sir. i ll keep my hands where they are. reporter: when cell phone images of unarmed african-americans killed by police went viral. the body of michael brown lays on that ground for 4 1/2
back. i can t breathe. keep your hands where they are, please. yes, i will, sir. i ll keep my hands where they are. reporter: when cell phone images of unarmed african-americans killed by police went viral. the body of michael brown lays on that ground for 4 1/2 hours shocked america back its consciousness once again. it woke so many people up that thought emmett till was a figment of the past and not a very relevant figure of the present. emmett till is michael brown and tamir rice and sandra bland and eric garner, and all of those folks because they woke us up once again. how do you chase what you love
lester, the role of the media has changed largely because of things like cell phones and body cameras and closed circuit tvs. here s another clip from hope and fury with images propelling the black lives matter movement today. when cell phone images of unarmed african americans killed by police went viral. the body of michael brown laying on that ground for 4 1/2 hours shocked america back into its consciousness once again. it woke so many people up, that thought emmet till was a figment of the past and not a relevant figure of the present, emmet till is michael brown and tamir rice and sandra bland and eric garner. lester, what are you seeing in the new generation of activist s? first of all, to point out, the emmet till is 40u ohow our
organization of discord. the organizers were thousands of miles away in st. petersburg, russia, working for a secretive organization which according to a recent u.s. indictment had a strategic goal to sew discord in the u.s. political system. it its name, the internet research agency, dubbed the kremlin troll factory by former employees who smuggled out these rare cell phone images. in 2016, cnn spoke to a russian journalist who went undercover as an internet troll there. translator: the u.s. elections are the key issue for the kremlin. and, of course, russia has invested a lot of effort into them. that s why the troll factories are working. i have no doubt. reporter: it was during the russian backed rebellion in ukraine in 2014 that evidence first emerged of pro kremlin troll factories filled with bloggers paid to spread false