Monday, June 4, 2012

WATCH: Is 'Miami Zombie Prank' Video Racist?




It wasn't just that one man chewed another man's face off in Miami on May 26, it was that he was growling and didn't stop his feast even when shot by police.


The horrifying face-eating attack ignited talk of a burgeoning zombie apocalypse-- mostly tongue-in-check, but also backed with an alarming string of other gruesome crime around the county: the man who threw his own intestines at police, another who ate his victim's brain and heart, and a mother who ate the toes of her murdered infant.


In a classless move that can be dubbed 'Only In Florida,' a Delray Beach man has preyed upon real fear about attacks by the undead by dressing up like a zombie and chasing South Floridians around their neighborhood.


Watch the video above.


In the video, titled Miami Zombie Attack Prank!, a white male smeared with blood and in disheveled clothing lurks, grunts, and lunges at people who appear truly alarmed by the bizarre encounter.


The video is not only cringeworthy for taking advantage and mocking others' actual fear. It also has a blatant racist tone -- as some YouTube commenters already pointed out, why is this white man chasing mostly black people?


The video, created by VitalyzdTV, has almost 1 million views since it was first posted on Saturday.


According to filmmaker Vitaly Zdorovetskiy's Twitter page, he came to United States in 2004 to act. In 2010, he started his own YouTube channel with "hilarious/insane pranks and shorts films."


In promoting his zombie prank video, Zdorovetskiy tweeted that he was almost shot.


At around the 2 minute mark, a man can be seen pointing something at the "zombie" but it is unclear if it's a finger, cell phone camera, or a firearm.




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