Incident

This isn’t so much a documentary as a combination of video witness statements, and though there is not one clinching piece of photography here, by using a multitude of real time sources from CCTV and from the body-cameras of the police officers on duty at the time, there can be little doubt as to what actually happened to “Snoop” as he walked down the street. Coming from a nation where is it is barely legal for a cop to carry a weapon let alone a pedestrian going about his business, I found this to be a pretty sad indictment of a society where people can stroll down the street with a gun in their holster and where the police are so nervous that their shoot first then ask questions mentality is seen as a norm. What we see before us can never be justified, but for me it merely reinforces the fact that the more guns you have the more guns get used, and trainee policemen should never be put in a position where they can wield live weaponry on the streets of any city - Chicago or anywhere else. On first watch it can seem a bit like it’s information overload, but if you watch it twice and follow each feed independently, then I think it presents us with a tragedy on many different levels. It wasn’t just a man’s life that was lost here, but trust in a system that has always been flawed, but is now much more visibly so.