Hardening Racial Lines in Public Space

Naomi Adiv — 2015-07-07T05:00:00Z

On Friday, June 5, Black teenagers in McKinney, Texas, were violently subdued by a police officer following a conflict that broke out at a community swimming pool—a place at which their presence provoked anxiety and then panic. Many interpretations of the officer's behavior have turned on the question of who broke what rules, but geographer Naomi Adiv argues that the debate has deeper spatial—and racial—implications.
In the last few weeks, there has been much noise followed by much quiet

- Debates / public space, racism, United States, police, race, Texas, swimming pool, brutality, police violence

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Hardening Racial Lines in Public Space