The black youth are starting a hashtag campaign of #IfTheyGunnedMeDown following the police-involved shooting of Mike Brown over the weekend.

The hashtag is currently going viral on Twitter. The black community in posting pictures of themselves in harmless-looking photos alongside one other photo, which is the flipside of the first.

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The pictures asked a question whether which picture the media would use to represent them.

The hashtag #IfTheyGunnedMeDown started when Mike Brown, unarmed, was allegedly shot by the police in the suburbs of St. Louis.

The 18-year-old Brown was shot by the Ferguson police on Saturday after an argument with an officer and one other person.

The police claimed that Brown was trying to get the officer's gun.

When the news of the shooting became a headline, it created a social media outrage.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and Rev. Al Sharpton were among those who publicized their disapproval over the shooting.

NAACP board of director John Gaskin told the Associated Press that the group is infuriated because of another police-involved killing of an African-American.

Sharpton described the event as "very disturbing."

The reverend said he plans on going to Ferguson to sympathize with Brown's family.

In a statement to the International Business Times, Lesley McSpadden, Brown's mother, said her son already finished high school and was going to college before he died.

McSpadden said there were other ways of subduing his son if he really was causing an altercation, instead of killing him.

"I would like to see him go to jail with the death penalty," she said of the officer involved.

Besides #IfTheyGunnedMeDown, #JusticeForMike is also becoming a powerful hashtag on Twitter in response to Mike's killing.

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