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Critical Commentary
This juxtaposition of images was created as it shows:
the incongruity of LASPD policing and rhetoric
the disciplinary/policing hegemony in the schooling of minority children
By juxtaposing these images, I hope to show the ideological infrastructure supporting state violence under the rhetoric of safety and engagement through the deceptively benign form of chosen self-representation.
This juxtaposition brings forth questions of what bodies are policed and how. This is especially in terms of the representations of what police encounters with marginalized groups actually entails.