How Smartphone Cameras Told the Story of Police Brutality
'The smartphone camera is the only thing we have to protect ourselves'

By Joanna Stern WSJ June 12, 2020

In the last decade, the smartphone has become a tool for witnessing police violence toward African Americans. From the 2009 killing of Oscar Grant to the 2020 killing of George Floyd, we reviewed the footage and talked to the people who captured it, to see how the accounts of racial injustice became clearer as the phones evolved. Photo illustration: Preston Jessee for The Wall Street Journal