Recent TikToks made by Ma Khia Bryant, the teen girl fatally shot by police in Columbus, Ohio, last week, are being shared widely as people try to make sense of another police killing. The videos have immortalized Bryant, who was 16, as a normal girl doing Gen Z things.
Experts and psychologists told BuzzFeed News that while these social media footprints of people killed by police can help make meaning out of the collective trauma wrought by such violence, they also have the potential to be retraumatizing for some.
On Tuesday, April 20, the day Bryant died, a TikTok she had posted earlier in the year started going massively viral on TikTok and then on Twitter. She was shot by a police officer the same day the country was processing a guilty verdict against Minneapolis cop Derek Chauvin in the murder of George Floyd.
People working in the mass media desperately need to use some common sense. But since true journalism is pretty much rare these days, journalists have been bamboozled by completely wicked ideologies.
You will be blessed if you can simply find a consistent journalist in the mass media who can actually put two coherent thoughts together. In fact, the mass social media actually pays those journalists to say weird things, crazy things, unfathomable things.
It can also be argued that the mass social media seeks to incite hatred and chaos in major centers in the United States. How else would they continue to obfuscate the facts and perpetuate their own ideologies? It was Daniel J. Flynn who rightly argued in
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