Why might the image offend (or not)? What does the image communicate? Who is controlling this image? How do you read this image? What is your experience of the image?

The image offends me because it depicts the injustice against blacks and police. The image communicates the actual beating of a person. The image is displayed as evidence, filmed by a citizen (bystander). You read the image as a frame of the beating.

Everyone remembers where, what age and how their community was affected by the beating, the trial, and the aftermath or riots of the trial's result. I remember writing a poem about the LA riots and winning an award. It was about light and the flame going out bc of how people behave and treat each other.

RS