Free Speech v. Free Blacks: Racist policing and calls to harm

Q2 Social Sciences

First Amendment Studies Pub Date : 2020-07-02 DOI:10.1080/21689725.2020.1837655

A. Hill

引用次数: 4

Abstract

ABSTRACT In 2018, mobile phone videos went viral of white people calling police to report Black people for engaging in innocuous conduct. Dubbed “white caller crime” by some commentators, mainstream and social media afforded serious and satiric attention to racist harassment via police calls. In this article, I analyze these police calls as a form of racist expression that operates as a call to harm. I begin by recounting three calls that went viral in consecutive months in 2018. I then theorize how the calls play out white supremacist and colonial logics of race and place, and I explore how viral publicity provides a viable strategy of resistance to racist expression. I close by contending that publicity, and the responses it has inspired, holds more promise for contesting racist police calls than a predictable turn to law and punishment under a hate speech framework.

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言论自由诉自由黑人：种族主义警察和伤害呼吁

2018年，一段白人报警举报黑人无伤大雅行为的手机视频在网上疯传。主流媒体和社交媒体被一些评论员称为“白人打电话犯罪”，对通过警察电话进行的种族主义骚扰给予了严肃和讽刺的关注。在这篇文章中，我分析了这些警察电话作为一种种族主义表达形式，作为一种伤害的呼吁。首先，我将讲述2018年连续几个月里疯传的三个电话。然后，我将这些呼吁如何发挥白人至上主义者和种族和地方的殖民逻辑的理论，并探索病毒式宣传如何提供抵抗种族主义表达的可行策略。最后，我认为，这种宣传及其引发的反响，更有可能引发对种族主义警察举报的质疑，而不是在仇恨言论框架下诉诸法律和惩罚。

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First Amendment Studies Social Sciences-Law

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期刊介绍： First Amendment Studies publishes original scholarship on all aspects of free speech and embraces the full range of critical, historical, empirical, and descriptive methodologies. First Amendment Studies welcomes scholarship addressing areas including but not limited to: • doctrinal analysis of international and national free speech law and legislation • rhetorical analysis of cases and judicial rhetoric • theoretical and cultural issues related to free speech • the role of free speech in a wide variety of contexts (e.g., organizations, popular culture, traditional and new media).