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“Death at the hands of police has not stopped. Since May 26, 2020 — the day after former officer Derek Chauvin killed Floyd — police have killed at least 223 Black people” These are the type of Images and videos that elicit collective actions . Social media made it possible for everyone to see, first-hand, what happened to George Floyd.    The video was shared by someone whom, by normal standard, would not be considered influential— 17-year-old Darnella Frazier, and viewed millions of times across the world. The public did not need to see the incident through the lens and filters of mainstream media or high-profiled Hollywood celebrities. The video offered resounding proof to indict Derek Chauvin and three other police officers involved, resulting in Mr. Chauvin’s arrest and prosecution. This post was written as part of Scholarship discourse on media images, especially Social media images: with reference to Images and videos as an important source of information and news ...
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Nigeria protests: Police chief deploys 'all resources' amid street violence

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 Nigeria's chief of police has ordered the immediate mobilisation of all police resources to put an end to days of street violence and looting.



Mohammed Adamu said criminals had hijacked anti-police brutality protests and taken over public spaces.

A new wave of looting was reported on Sunday, a day after Mr Adamu ordered police to end the "violence, killings, looting and destruction of property".

Protests calling for an end to police brutality began on 7 October.

The demonstrations, dominated by young people, started with calls for a police unit, the Special Anti-Robbery Squad (Sars), to be disbanded.

President Muhammadu Buhari dissolved the Sars unit - accused of harassment, extortion, torture and extrajudicial killings - days later, but the protests continued, demanding broader reforms in the way Nigeria is governed.

They escalated after unarmed protesters were shot in the nation's biggest city, Lagos, on Tuesday. Rights group Amnesty International said security forces killed at least 12 people. Nigeria's army has denied any involvement.

Lagos has in recent days seen widespread looting of shops, malls and warehouses, and property has been damaged, with the businesses of prominent politicians targeted. A number of buildings have been torched and prisons attacked.

On Sunday, there were reports of government warehouses being ransacked in the central city of Jos, as well as in Adamawa and Taraba states, with people taking away food and agricultural supplies.

There were similar reports of looting from warehouses in Bukuru city, near Jos, on Saturday.

The warehouses were said to have stored food supplies for distribution during lockdowns imposed to help control the spread of Covid-19.

This is an Artefact Blog created for the Master’s dissertation on Communicative influence of social media images on collective actions: A content analysis of images enhanced tweets and Facebook messages in reaction to the brutality of George Floyd. Using qualitative content analysis on a data set of 50 initial tweets and information on microblogging services of Twitter and Facebook in reactions to images of George Floyd's brutality by Minneapolis police officers, and about the preceding protests; this study examined the sentiment occurring in reaction to relevant tweets (and retweets) given the feature of "retweeting," while establishing the elicited negative /positive reactions for collective actions.

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