There’s been a growing push among BlackLivesMatter supporters, both on- and offline, to refrain from sharing photos of protestors’ faces. Many journalists, however, argue that to blur faces would not be telling the full story. mmaggeler writes
Photo-Illustration: by Preeti Kinha; Photo: Thomas Lohnes/Getty Images On the evening of Friday, May 29, a Twitter user began livestreaming the growing crowd outside Brooklyn’s Barclays Center to protest the killing of George Floyd. The stream was shaky and grainy, jerking from the police in riot gear to the chanting demonstrators facing them.
“You have to humanize the protest and the struggle,” Eric Baradat, the AFP photo editor for North America told the Cut over the phone one afternoon. Baradat said he has confronted this question while covering uprisings in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East, and that ultimately, he believes it is a journalist’s job to cover the reality of what is happening in front of them. And to convey the emotional reality of a situation, faces are essential.
Crawford died in 2017. His death was ruled a suicide by police, but many people, including Crawford’s family, were suspicious. Crawford was one of six men tied to the Ferguson protests who died in the years after the demonstrations. Other activists reported experiencing harassment following their work at the protests. “Something is happening,” Cori Bush, a frequent leader of the Ferguson protests, told NBC News in 2019.
So what exactly is the threat posed by posting images of protesters’ faces? And does the answer differ whether you’re a journalist publishing to a national media outlet — or a private citizen posting to your Instagram? These seem like questions for editors to argue over in newsrooms. But what if you’re not a journalist at all, but a private citizen, taking pictures to post for your friends and family on social media? The FBI, for one, is interested in your footage: On June 1, the government agency issued a request seeking “digital media depicting violent encounters surrounding the civil unrest” — photos or videos, in other words, of people who could be potentially charged with looting or vandalism.
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