Whose Streets? Roadway Protests and Weaponised Automobility

The article examines the role of automobility in US-based anti-racism demonstrations and counter-demonstrations. We contrast spatial strategies highway occupations by racial justice activists, with so-called “weaponised car” attacks American far right. Analysing online memes anti-protest legislation, explores under-acknowledged links between “automobile supremacy”—the structure motorists' privilege as embedded law, built environment popular imaginary—and patterns stratification often termed “white supremacy”. document three ways which has been enlisted means violence against protestors wider Black communities US: through use vehicles, right-of-way conventions, roadways weapons. demonstrates how imperative to make way for motorist long provided cover injustice.