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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"police killing"”.
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'The Murderer State Will be Held to Account’ The Myth of the State and Its Violence
The legal aftermath of police violence often fails to respond to public demands of accountability. What we often witness is a two-pronged response and conclusion in the legal process; police violence is either understood as an exceptional event–i.e., the wrongdoings of a few bad cops–or such …
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Magic Mulatto: Barack Obama's Biracial Body and Race Performance
… South Carolina and Micah Johnson, provoked by police killing African Americans in multiple incidents, shot and killed five police officers, Obama was presented with a rhetorical situation. Although he mostly avoided discussing race in his speeches, these racially charged incidents indicated an …
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The criminal disparity between African American and Caucasian males: Police use of excessive and deadly force in the United States, 1991 - 2014
… and the criminal justice system allowing police officers the right to desecrate minorities through the use of excessive and deadly force? This research focuses on the consequences of a U.S. legal system that seldom if ever provides any retributive justice to police officers that kill …
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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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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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Truth in the time of tumult: tracing the role of official 'truth-seeking' commissions of inquiry in South Africa, from Sharpeville to Marikana
… and images depicting an ANC-led South African police killing 44 unarmed miners, striking for a wage increase, ruptured the TRC's official narrative that state violence of this proportion belonged to a bygone colonial, or Apartheid past. Following the massacre, the Marikana Commission of Inquiry …