The gruesomeness of George Floyd's murder by police officer Derek Chauvin was impossible to ignore because of the viral nature of the nine-minute video that captured it, says Marc Lamont Hill, whose new book "Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media...
The gruesomeness of George Floyd's murder by police officer Derek Chauvin was impossible to ignore because of the viral nature of the nine-minute video that captured it, says Marc Lamont Hill, whose new book "Seen and Unseen: Technology, Social Media, and the Fight for Racial Justice," digs deep into how digital media plays a pivotal role in advancing the fight for racial justice. "White people, they couldn't pretend to be innocent," Hill said on "Salon Talks" "They couldn't pretend not to know. They couldn't say, 'Well, what did he do to the officer?' They couldn't say anything. They had to watch nine minutes of a murder." Watch the full interview to hear more about what Hill learned about Floyd through his research and why he says, "the struggle for justice is never neat and clean."
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