The article is about the incident between a police officer and Adair-Whyte, a part time student and more importantly a black male. This was an incident that was sensationalised over the social media as it showed amateur footage of the police officer acting aggressively and unprofessionally towards Adair, and many claim this was due to discrimination. This was an incident that surfaced amidst the other police brutality cases and came to fame especially since it was in the UK where police brutality cases are minimum to almost none. The videos were all released and shared on social media to raise awareness against the police officer who didn't act accordingly and professionally.
- The incident has been referred to the police watchdog the Independent Police Complaints Commission
- 4Front media released the second video the media department of a project working for and with young Londoners
- The videos were all released on social media and these were then trended on all platforms
Personally, I believe that this case is exactly what social media is made for, to promote free speech and raise awareness about small cases that often are not heard about amongst the repetitive news stories in the mass media which only benefit the media companies because the narrative can be interpreted in many ways. That is definitely not the case for these types of cases where the victim can record it all and put it on social media without any media outlets changing the narrative to suit them. I also believe that this is a strong case for people protesting police brutality and a strong case for those that believe police officers should wear cameras, because if Adair had not had the initiative to record it, then no one would know about it.
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