LAWS 3001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Digital Evidence, Digital Witness, Rodney King
8 Dec 2018
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Interpreting digital evidence: human witness, limited ability to remember, may be limited by fear, may be influenced by bias, digital witness, no memory decay, not affected by fear, seen as unbiased & objective. Lmao (crying laugh emoji) : first judge argued post-assault behaviour inconsistent w her being upset, lmao & crying laugh emoji = she"s not upset or fearful, appeal judge argued text did not mean she was not harassed. Intersections btwn gender, race & class: bakht aboriginal and racialized women fare particularly poorly in a system that erases colonial & racial aggression in its attempt to combat sexual violence. (420) Indigenous/women of colour often hyper-visible as criminals & hyper-invisible as. As discussed in class, i believe that to account for these differences, we must look at the cultural context of these individuals and any background factors that may have led up the incident.
