Give the public an inside look that the media had no way of doing. The details and evidence generated by these men demonstrated that a citizen journalist with today's technology is a valuable asset. It cannot be ignored that many of today's extraordinary news events have benefited from the detailed coverage provided by citizen journalists. The media benefits as well as the public and the authorities trying to solve the cases. A recent example of this is the Staten Island case on July 17, 2014, where New York police placed a man in a chokehold and the man later died. Also the controversial shooting of an African American man in Ferguson, Missouri. Videos from citizen journalists were used in news coverage of them