“I AM A Child!”: A Girl-Child’s Truth and The Lies of Law Enforcement
本文分析2021年纽约罗切斯特一名9岁黑人女孩被警察胡椒喷雾事件，探讨女孩“我是个孩子”的回应如何揭示执法谎言，并呼吁废除现有体系、建立将黑人女孩视为儿童的世界。
On January 29, 2021, a police officer with the Rochester, New York, Police Department pepper-sprayed a 9-year old Black girl who had been handcuffed and forced into the back of a police car. In the struggle that proceeded this moment, an officer yelled at the girl with obvious frustration, “You’re acting like a child!” In this essay, I consider how the girl’s quick retort —“I AM a child!”—interjected a truth into the struggle that had been all but ignored by the armed adults on the scene. I consider how the truth embedded in this girl’s call exposes the lies of law enforcement and, in doing so, lay the seeds of abolitionist imaginings—a call for a system, a world, that would treat a Black girl as if she were a child.