Friday, December 5, 2014

How Twitter and Facebook helped shut down Lower Manhattan for Eric Garner

http://ift.tt/1277UwE // Protests-new-york

Protests have swept the nation in the aftermath of a Staten Island grand jury decision not to indict a white New York Police Department officer in the chokehold death of Eric Garner, a black man


Like any major protest, rallies against the decision swelled from several organizing groups, bystanders caught up in the furor. An undercurrent of outrage seemed to provide a common cause for all. Grassroots organizers have leveraged the power of social media to drive the large-scale demonstrations



Just as social media fueled the initial attention to Garner's case after a video surfaced of police pinning him to the ground, social platforms became the rallying point for those looking to organize action after the decision Read more...


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