Citation

Dal Cortivo A, Oursler A. Mobilization 2021; 26(4): 457-474.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2021, Department of Sociology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Publisher Allen Press)

DOI

10.17813/1086-671X-26-4-457

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Following the murder of George Floyd, Minneapolis became the epicenter of the largest movement in US history. Local Black Lives Matter (BLM) protests, dubbed the Minneapolis Uprising, were met by the largest civil police deployment in state history. In the week following George Floyd's murder, state and local officials convened ten press conferences totaling over 400 minutes of discourse. We use these press conferences, in conjunction with an ethnography of protests, to analyze how state officials counterframed Black Lives Matter protests following the murder of George Floyd. Building on critical race theory, we consider how the state maneuvered to pacify Black Lives Matter protesters and maintain racial oppression and repression. Minneapolis state officials constructed their counterframe through the (re)ordering of disorder, boundary activation, co-optation, and erasure.

Language: en