Researcher Bora Erden, third from the top, presenting our 3D reconstruction of Portland protests
Researcher Bora Erden, third from the top, presenting our 3D reconstruction of Portland protests

SITU Research joins virtual panel discussion on “Digital Evidence and Police Brutality”

September 24th 2020

In this virtual panel examining effective techniques for using digital evidence to litigate human rights violations, hosted by the UCLA Law's Promise Institute for Human Rights and The National Lawyers' Guild-LA, researcher Bora Erden presents our recent visual investigations involving reconstructions of public protests. In particular, he contrasts our video analysis with Amnesty International on the dangers of tear gas with an evidentiary website of a July 2 protest created for a Portland court case, noting the different levels of narrative guidance and objectivity necessary for their different viewing contexts.

The panel includes:

Lindsay Freeman, Director of Law and Policy at the UC Berkeley Human Rights Center and an international human rights lawyer specializing in technology, digital evidence and online investigations
Andrea Lampros, the Associate Director at the Human Rights Center at UC Berkeley Law and founder of the Human Rights Investigative Lab at Berkeley
Kamari Clarke, a Professor of Anthropology at UCLA who has conducted extensive research on the politics of globalization and race, legal institutions, and digital technologies
Catherine Sweester, the Deputy Director of the Promise Institute for Human Rights (moderator)

Watch the recording here, and read the overview of the event here.