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How Videos Of Fatal Shootings By Police Change Response To Violence

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The release of videos showing the fatal police shootings of, in some cases, unarmed black men, has almost become a regular thing over the last couple of years. The videos are everywhere — on Facebook, YouTube and the TV news.

Jade Davis, director of digital learning projects at LaGuardia Community College in New York, says the omnipresence of these videos has changed the response to the way we see incidence of violence around us.

She joined WBUR's All Things Considered to discuss.

This segment aired on September 21, 2016.

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