The immigration crisis of summer 2014 made national news once more in February of 2015 when a federal judge granted an injunction on behalf of Central American mothers and children which ordered a stoppage to the Obama administration’s policy of detaining women and...
Kevin Scott Jobe
Kevin Scott Jobe is a doctoral candidate in Philosophy at Stony Brook
University.
Pre-emptive States of Emergency: Martial Governmentality & the Crisis of Police
Commenting on the investigation into the police killing of Luis Rodriguez in Moore, OK in February 2014, an attorney for the Moore, OK police department declared, “In this country, it seems we are becoming anti-police and that the tide has turned in respecting law...
To Demonstrate a Right: Police Power Jurisprudence and the Rule of Law in Zuccotti Plaza
Waller v City of New York, 2011 At approximately 1:00 am on the morning of November 15, 2011 the NYPD entered Zuccotti Plaza with armored vehicles, barricades and bullhorns and announced to ‘those occupying Zuccotti Park’ that they were to immediately remove all...