Racial framing decides which killers get mythologized versus executed by police

Evidence

The description of Mark Duggan as a “gangster” then reliably triggers a whole set of racist associations, which we can quickly grasp when we compare the way in which white criminals such as the Krays (“they only killed their own and they loved their muvvas”), or Ronnie Biggs (involved in a violent crime, but treated as a cuddly rogue) are mythologised. We might also pause to note that Raoul Moat was able to kill people over the course of a number of days before “shooting himself”. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1751

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Blackness itself functioned as presumptive criminality for police killers — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1115; Race pairing predicts death sentences even after controlling for legal factors — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law: A Definitive Look at…, 72; Racial marking rationalizes violence by framing targets as unruleable beasts — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race: Reflections on…, 1814 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Blackness itself functioned as presumptive criminality for police killers #exemplifies (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1115
• Racialized policing submerges the individual crime in the offender’s race #expands (0.80) — Ibram X. Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning, 852
• Venue changes can engineer juries that acquit police of racial killings #qualifies (0.80) — David Theo Goldberg, The Racial State, 82
• Racial marking rationalizes violence by framing targets as unruleable beasts #expands (0.78) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1814
• Judges cite vivid but false crime narratives to justify executions #exemplifies (0.78) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2077
• State racism frames killing others as purifying one’s own race #expands (0.75) — Sherene Razack, Casting Out, 41
• Race pairing predicts death sentences even after controlling for legal factors #complicates (0.72) — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 72
• Racial profiling derives its coherence from narrative, not evidence #expands (0.72)