Two processes of dehumanization: an in-depth study of racial biases in real-life officer-involved shootings of black citizens

Officer-involved shootings (OIS) of people color concern fundamental societal issues, including race, violence, and policing. While scholars have gathered extensive insights on contextual circumstances OIS, the unfolding encounters still remains a black box, research is debating whether racialized biases actually matter for shootings. To study this question, article discusses findings from an in-depth analysis real-life OIS as they unfold. It triangulates video footage with document data to analyze role racial situational interaction in compares police white citizens, well police-citizen encounter that did not end shooting. Findings suggest two intertwined processes dehumanization contribute one operating cultural level. The contributes race racism, use lethal force, sociological theory.