Summary
The African American man whose April 2015 shooting in the back by Columbia, South Carolina police officer Michael Slager, caught on video, Matthew Abraham pairs with Abdul Fattah al-Sharif’s killing in Hebron as subjects targeted for extrajudicial killing by agents of the state because of their race/ethnicity (Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, PDF p.6-7 / printed p.82-83).
Details
- Scott was shot as he ran away from his car after being pulled over for a broken taillight and for outstanding child support payments; Abraham argues the video confirmed what many African Americans have argued for years, that police plant evidence to solidify self-defense narratives to cover up what is in fact murder (PDF p.6-7 / printed p.82-83).
- Abraham asks how students should be taught about the precarious lives Scott and al-Sharif lived, and about the rhetorical strategies of the activists who bring attention to those lives and of those countering them (PDF p.7 / printed p.83).
Related pages
Recognizing and Saving Black Lives, Recognizing and Saving Palestinian Lives: The Power of Transnational Rhetorics in Locating the Commonality of Liberation Struggles, Abdul Fattah al-Sharif, Elor Azaria, Precarity