What these protests show us
"Want to see who came to riot?" asks a mirror held by a protester in Capitol Hill. "Look who dressed for a riot." Protests continue across Seattle in the wake of the police killings of George Floyd and scores of other Black people over the years.
KUOW Photo/Casey Martin
With striking visuals, protesters demand to know: do Black lives matter to the state?
Here in Seattle, the protests that erupted in the wake of George Floyd's killing by Minneapolis police have a certain look.
Lots of black clothing; lots of masks. Umbrellas, otherwise a rare sight in this city. And: mirrors, facing police barricades, showing officers in riot gear their own reflections.
These protests, and the images coming out of them, hold a mirror up to a view of American policing that many have held for a long time. Kainaz Amaria, visuals editor at Vox, joined Record producer Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong to talk about how this protest looks, and is, so different from what's come before.
