Should You Watch the Walter Scott Video?
It is hard to escape the feeling, too, that by watching such spectacles one is participating in, and thereby compounding, the original acts of victimization and violation. (I didn’t look; all that I wanted to know was in the freeze-frame and the accompanying reports.)
.. If we had, instead, footage of a policeman being gunned down and dying—the two officers executed in their patrol car in Brooklyn recently, for instance—would it have been posted as readily? What if it were footage of a child being run over by a car?