Facebook Live, Periscope Play Roles in Uproar Over Police Shootings

Live-video-streaming services such as Twitter’s Periscope application and Facebook Live have played prominent roles in the fallout over police shootings of African Americans.

Live-video-streaming services such as Twitter’s Periscope application and Facebook Live have played prominent roles in the fallout over police shootings of African Americans.

The July 6 fatal shooting of Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn., was captured on Facebook Live (embedded below, but please be warned, the content is graphic) by Castile’s girlfriend, Diamond Williams.

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Posted by Lavish Reynolds on Wednesday, July 6, 2016

Dallas resident Michael Kevin Bautista used Facebook Live to capture this video (embedded below, but please be warned, the content is graphic) of a shootout between protesters and police in Dallas the following night, which resulted in the death of five police officers, the wounding of seven others, the killing of one shooter by a police robot bomb and the capture of several other suspects.

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