Blackness itself functioned as presumptive criminality for police killers

Evidence

These victims were gunned down on account of who they were and what they could not change. Their racial identity, their Blackness, marked them as presumptive criminals to the police who shot them inside their own homes or choked the last breath out of them on the street, in front of cameras, for all to see. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1115

Categorization

• XREF: The presumptive-criminality mechanism parallels how Islamophobia marks Muslim bodies as presumptive threats in the War on Terror — the shared logic across racial and religious lines the reader is tracking. — connects to: White criminals are mythologised as rogues where Black suspects are demonised as gangsters — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1751; Racial framing decides which killers get mythologized versus executed by police — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1751