Dempsey said watching the video shocked her and made her angry, and that all she saw was "a bully who got angry for getting his ego squashed" by a small Native American woman.
In the video, shocked bystanders can be heard yelling, "They just shot that man," and "Ain't nobody got no gun".
On Sunday, when a United passenger was violently dragged off an overbooked flight by Chicago police, the brutality of the video shocked the internet.
On Sunday, when a United passenger was violently dragged off an overbooked flight by Chicago police, the brutality of the video shocked the internet.
"Look who's here!" she says in the video, feigning shock.
The video "would shock the conscience of any reasonable human being," Judge Velis said in court Tuesday, The Associated Press reported.
There will be another video to shock us and fulfil our collective voyeuristic instincts – maybe even, as happened on Wednesday in Virginia, a first-person documentation of another person's brutality and inhumanity, filmed from the only end of a gun on which we're supposed to want to stand.
In a statement, the council said it accepted the video uses shock tactics.
The music video for "Shock to the System" was nominated for "Best Special Effects in a Video" and "Best Editing in a Video" at the 1993 MTV Video Music Awards, losing both times to Peter Gabriel's video for "Steam".
One inmate who witnessed the death of that handcuffed inmate, Carlos Perez, told me, "the pictures and video will shock you with the amount of blood".
The violence of the killings, now often caught on mobile video cams, shock human decency; they spawn reactive and brutal killings by people who feel hopeless and without recourse.
