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Explain Like I'm Five
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The rational for Ben doing what he did was that the family had already spent 18 months and tens of thousands of dollars doing things "the right way" in court and got to a point where the court told them they needed to spend another $60k to get an injunction and maybe in 3 or 4 more years actually recover something.
Instead, the family turned to a YouTube interested in the story and told him to blow it up. Combine viral videos with genuinely concerning actions on the part of police, and the story did, in fact, blow up.
The moral here is that "doing the right thing, the legal way" got this family fucked and going loud with social media got the job done.