White Bear

In today’s class, we watched a very interesting and controversial film that would spark a very good debate. Because a woman participated in the kidnapping and murder of a little girl, she was basically tortured daily because of her immoral action. But instead of persecuting her like any other criminal, she was constantly reminded of her crime. While her fiancé killed the child, she recorded, so as “punishment” she was chased for hours while others recorded her instead of helping her. So basically it was like a game show, in my eyes. But the spectator’s actions struck me as that’s what people do daily. While someone is getting jumped or fighting, instead of getting help, the first thing people do is whip out their cell phones, record it, and upload it to social media outlets.

 Just recently, a brawl happened at White Station High School where a girl was getting jumped by another big group of girls and instead of students trying to break up the fight, they recorded and expressed commentary. In results, the student that was jumped had a cat-scan performed on her head because of the excessive punching and kicking. But those students also got suspended, which I think is a very easy punishment. But because everyone decided to record and egg the fight on, she could have lost her life in that fight.

But there are some positives to recording criminal events. Not too long ago, a police officer was filmed killing an unarmed black man while he was running away. If the act wasn’t caught on camera, there wouldn’t have been no criminal charges against the officer.

But does it still give people the right to stand and record while people are dying or almost losing their life? What would you do if you found a helpless male or female getting beat to death? Would you walk away because it has nothing to do with you? Would you record it? Or would you attempt to intervene and call for help?