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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Police Killings"”.
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In Black and White: The American Media’s Construction of Police Killings
With several highly publicized police killings during the latter half of 2014, the issue of police violence has been re-ignited in the United States as emotionally charged a topic as ever, dividing Americans politically and socially and racially. From Eric Garner to Nicholas Robertson, the media …
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Racial threat theory and Black Lives Matter: advancing our understanding of police killings of Black Americans and consequential civil resistance in contemporary America
… between the BLM movement, racial inequality, and police violence. Thus, this thesis aims to fill this gap by examining this relationship in two distinct ways. First, I examine various forms of political and economic threat to understand if, and how, these occurrences translate into physical …
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White Racial Awakenings: Understanding How Turning Point Narratives Create White Allies
… to realize racial injustice—often caused by police killings of Black Americans. The summer of 2020 sparked various discussions about White allies and their role in racial justice. Previous scholarship has explored White racial awakenings, also referred to as turning points, when White allies …
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When may police kill in self-defence? A special moral obligations argument against moral parity
That police have special moral obligations to protect others is an important moral consideration which is largely absent from discourse about the moral permissibility of police killings of civilians in self-defence. I argue that police officers, at least when acting ex officio, face a special …
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A moral document? Expanding conversations about public safety budgets in Minnesota in the wake of George Floyd’s murder
… for racial justice in 2020 following the police killing of George Floyd on May 25. In the months since, local activists and elected officials have advanced ambitious visions for how the city can reimagine its systems of public safety. This thesis builds on these perspectives by looking at …
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The killing consensus : homicide detectives, police that kill and organized crime in São Paulo, Brazil
… the state. Much of the knowledge presumes that police are the only body that may kill and arbitrate killing, routinely and without retaliation from contesting parties, as a means of establishing and maintaining a legitimate legal order. This dissertation examines an urban circumstance where …