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I'm standing on the roof of a building in the middle of the night. Below me, framed in bright lights, a man is being beaten to death. The sounds are hard to make out, but he screams as officers surround him, kick his body, tase him.


The woman next to me jumps up and down, crying, imploring the officers to stop attacking the man. "He's not resisting!"


I'm watching Anastasio Hernandez Rojas die, after he attempted to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in 2010. Rojas had lived in San Diego since he was 14, and had five children there, but had been deported two months prior


Except the scene isn't live. Nor is it a video recording. It's somewhere, eerily, in between. It's a virtual reality representation based on real events Read more...


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