Viral videos show white fear weaponized by ordinary people with deadly consequences.

Evidence

In fact, just weeks before Floyd was murdered, another viral video had revealed to the nation—and much of the world—that white fear is easily and routinely weaponized by ordinary people with potentially deadly consequences. … The men claimed they suspected that Arbery had robbed homes in the area, but he had merely been jogging in a place where white men believed that he didn’t belong. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 341