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18-year-old Missouri teen Michael Brown was killed by police on Saturday. The death of the unarmed teen has sparked outrage in his local community that has spread across the United States, and now Twitter.
Comparisons drawn between Brown and other slain teens Jordan Davis and Trayvon Martin explain the immense popularity of #IfTheyGunnedMeDown on Twitter. The hashtag's accompanying tweets feature two different photos of the same person and the question, 'If they gunned me down, which picture would they use?'
The criticism has taken Twitter by storm not only among Americans but now on an international scale.
See #IfTheyGunnedMeDown tweets below:
Hashtags criticizing the media's portrayal of victims in the black community is nothing new to Black Twitter. #DangerousBlackKids discredited the vilification of black youth that picked up steam after the death of Jordan Davis, and #APHeadlines , a sarcastic twitter backlash to Associated Press coverage of the Renisha McBride case verdict.
If you died, which picture would the media use? #IfTheyGunnedMeDown #MikeBrown http://t.co/lJMM9a0owk http://ift.tt/VcLCpT
- The Root (@TheRoot) August 11, 2014
#IfTheyGunnedMeDown which picture would the media use ? #RIPMikeBrown http://ift.tt/1kwuUgI
- Yung PeeWee ` (@_itsrico_) August 11, 2014
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