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In the early morning hours of March 3, 1991, George Holliday was stirred awake by the sound of police sirens and a low-flying helicopter. Holliday stepped onto his balcony and aimed his new video camera across the street. The VHS tape he recorded that night would be an inflection point in U.S. racial politics.
The scene that he captured—law enforcement officers inflicting a merciless beating on a Black man—had taken place throughout the history of the United States. But since the civil rights movement, that violence had largely been ignored by America’s white majority. The technology of portable video recording made that kind of willful ignorance impossible.Holliday’s tape was the first in a now-familiar category: a video record of police brutality. Then as now, it made for disturbing viewing.
I was a 12-year-old kid living in Texas in 1991, and I saw the tape on the news. Everyone I knew saw it—it was the first news event that I can remember going what we would now call viral. In the intervening 30 years, that video has never fully left me: When I’ve been pulled over while driving, Holliday’s tape has played on a loop in my mind.
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