A single shocking image of police violence galvanized mass attention.

Evidence

In the photo, she is sitting on the pavement, appearing dazed and plaintive, and it looks like she has lost her eye. The image shocked tens of millions of people. Piero was sitting back at work, writing his own story, when he heard shouts go up in the newsroom. They had seen the picture, now flying through social networks. — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 389

Categorization

• CANDY: A rubber bullet to the face of a beautiful journalist for Brazil’s NYT of record, photographed mid-impact, became the movement’s viral flashpoint.
• XREF: connects to: A single viral image of police brutality converted ordinary citizens into protesters — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 335; A few random violent incidents generate outsized public fear; Police violence against protest organizers turned leadership figures into martyrs — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 368

Broader Connections

• A single viral image of police brutality converted ordinary citizens into protesters #corroborates (0.97) — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn, 335
• Police violence against protest organizers turned leadership figures into martyrs #expands (0.74) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 368
• A few random violent incidents generate outsized public fear #expands (0.72)