#NoFilter

Chapter 8 highlights the horror associated with peering into the forbidden spaces of state-sponsored violence against black bodies. Many activists in the movement have experienced mysterious, untimely deaths, and suicides. Even distant African American witnesses have reported a reluctance to view smartphone videos of fatal police encounters anymore, citing severe trauma. This chapter complicates our discussion of black witnessing, therefore, to wrestle with the question of whether these videos have become like lynching postcards.