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You Wanted Body Cams. Now The Footage Won’t Fit The Narrative.
In its humble beginnings, the Black Lives Matter movement was primarily a viral hashtag, where people could show allegiance to the young black lives that seemed to be taken far too soon and too often, without reason.
By Jaimee Marshall16 min read
Or worse, because of racism—because we live in a deeply racist country charged with the air of white supremacy. That’s the narrative that Black Lives Matter has ingrained into the American mind as an unassailable truth.