Why You Shouldn’t Make Up Your Mind About A Shooting From Watching The Video Posted on July 8, 2020 https://thefederalist.com/2020/07/08/why-you-shouldnt-make-up-your-mind-about-a-shooting-from-watching-the-video/ In 2019, Police Magazine ran an explanatory article clarifying for laymen — including journalists — the variety of actions covered by the elastic term “chokehold.” It was written to dispel public ignorance of the issue by the director of the University of Illinois’s Police Training Institute, and its lead control and arrest tactics instructor. Anyone serious about making sense of what happened on that terrible day in Minneapolis should read the entire essay.The mind’s eye assigns its own truth to images that could be perceived differently under different conditions, or after full disclosure of circumstances. But demagoguery closes off avenues of interpretation. Propaganda finds a formidable instrument in images that permit people to “see” what they have already imagined.Leave the last word to Adams who grew to admire the man he had photographed, ultimately to his detriment in the post-war years. He eulogized Loan at his death in Burke, Virginia, in 1998, adding: “Still photographs are the most powerful weapon in the world. People believe them, but photographs do lie, even without manipulation. They are only half-truths.”By Maureen Mullarkey