The videographic afterimage of any real event is peculiar. When the event is a homicide, that afterimage can cross over into the uncanny: the sudden, unjust, and irrevocable end of the long story of what one person was, who he loved, all she hoped, all he achieved, all she didn’t, becomes available for viewing and reviewing.

— Teju Cole, Known and Strange Things, Faber & Faber, Ch. Death in the Browser Tab, 2016