They were in 4th grade when Eric Garner gasped “I can’t breathe,” and 12 when Philando Castile’s death was live streamed. Clips of George Floyd’s murder have been on repeat for the past year.

Now, Black Gen Z’ers have a message: "Don't share that.”

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“You don’t understand what sharing that does to us, how desentizing that is, how it traumatizes us, that we see people like us, that it happens every day,” Lisa Amanor, a sophomore at Minnesota’s Champlin Park High, said about footage of police violence against people of color.
Nearly 30 members of Minnesota Teen Activists who converged on Minneapolis last week told BuzzFeed News that the constant barrage and sharing of this footage not only normalizes and dehumanizes attacks against Black bodies, it has also habitualized their trauma.
In the past few months, they’ve seen the police killing videos of Isiah Brown, Adam Toledo, and Ma’Khia Bryant. As Black youth, as activists, they feel they need to bear witness, but they abhor how quickly and thoughtlessly people share the final moments of a Black life.
“It’s like a foreshadow of your own death,” said Nicole Bosire, another Champlin Park High School Sophomore. “And we are still so young.”

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