Video footage does not convince most people that their prior interpretation of something is wrong. It just doesn’t. That much has been apparent for more than a decade, as we’ve cycled through tragedy after tragedy, shooting after shooting, death after death, and acquittal after acquittal. Only in extreme cases where a narrative is completely and obviously contradicted by footage will people say something like, “OK I guess my first take was wrong.” And those extreme cases are rare.
Why Nobody is Convinced by Footage
