如果不看普通民众和新媒体分享的现场录像，就不可能正确理解目前发生在美国各地的**活动——无论是**活动的最初起因还是目前的特点。最初是一名旁观者抓拍到了执法部门杀害乔治·弗洛伊德的过程，Twitter、Instagram和Facebook上分享的视频和图片显示了警方如何以更多毫无根据的暴力回应**活动。

在这种新的媒体格局中，一个引人注目的组织是Unicorn Riot，这是一个非营利性的媒体集体，其记者捕捉到的镜头和采访揭示了比主流报道更多的**活动。《纽约客》发表了一篇非常精彩（虽然很短）的小组简介，值得你花时间阅读。

正如作家特洛伊·帕特森（Troy Patterson）所解释的，独角兽暴动是这些**活动的重要见证人：“报道令人印象深刻的是它与社区的亲密关系，它耐心地讲述故事的能力无与伦比，在街上一个小时又一个小时地搜索，以求清晰，”他写道。

“One night last week, a Unicorn Riot camera crew elicited a succinct commentary on the dynamics of property destruction from a local business owner. “I realize why the Third Precinct was burnt down,” the man said. “It wasn’t burnt down because people were mad at the police. It was burnt down because the police were mad at the people”— meaning that the officers’ passivity in protecting the building was in fact an aggression, intended to tar the mass of protesters as arsonists.”

您可以观看下面的视频：

帕特森还指出，这段录像的重要性和相关性应该促使我们重新考虑“公民新闻”和普通“新闻”之间的界限

“You could refer to what Unicorn Riot does as ‘activist reporting,’ just as you might call a bystander capturing footage of N.Y.P.D. officers tossing people to the asphalt or plowing cruisers through crowds ‘citizen journali**.’ But you also could decide that these distincti*** reflect a certain snobbery and have lost a certain salience. There is no use in quibbling about objective journali** amid this emergency, when the power of people’s voices is our only defense.”

一定要在这里阅读《纽约客》的完整资料，你可以在他们的网站和推特上查看独角兽暴动的报道。