The arc of African-American history is as gruesome as it gets, and the 2020 Black Lives Matter movement was inevitable because of it.
Before the rise and rise of social media, the calm delivery and content warnings of news anchors had a way of making chaos seem less frightening than it really is.
This is what has been achieved through social media - bringing this reality into our homes, on record for posterity.
What racist killers and police didn’t expect in confronting Black Lives Matter was that technology could be used by citizens against them.
It is becoming standard to film in protests and to immediately post footage of police doing the exact opposite of upholding peace.