RT Article
T1 The Killing of Jean Charles de Menezes: Hyper-Militarism in the Neoliberal Economic Free-Fire Zone
JF Social justice
VO 33
IS 4
SP 92
OP 106
A1 McCulloch, Jude 1958-
A1 Sentas, Vicki
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1747157015
AB Part of a special issue on deaths in custody and detention. The writers discuss the circumstances of the fatal shooting on July 22, 2005, of Brazilian electrician Jean Charles de Menezes on a tube station in South London and the incorporation of police firearm tactics from Northern Ireland and Israel. They assert that domestic mobilizations of preemptive firearms tactics used in the “war on terror” imply significant continuities with tactics used in colonial contexts that consolidate and intensify the already established trend toward more military styles of policing in liberal democracies. They contend that the underlying military philosophy collapses the idea of suspect identity with guilty acts to sanction race-based coercion and punishment, including extrajudicial killings.
K1 Political Violence
K1 Offenses against public safety
K1 Social Justice
K1 Shooting techniques
K1 Drive-by shootings
K1 Firearms & crime
K1 Bombings
K1 Police
K1 Police shootings
K1 Counterterrorism
K1 Police -- England