“...the murder of a black or brown body,...”
“Body”, used in this way, is a term imported from academia. It has become more broadly prevalent in the past year or so. It is similar to “space”. As in “safe space”, which can be a physical space or a state of mind.
When you hear people use it, you know they’ve got a whole cockeyed world view behind it.
No. It’s been Russian since the 60s
I am not sure it ever was. I cruised through Berkeley a few times. I thought it was a very weird place.
While I find the word ‘body’ very odd in this context — body implying a corpse and not a living person — it does remind me of the use of the word ‘souls’ (such as when an airliner crashes and people say ‘there were 127 souls on board’).
I don’t think they consider them to be human the way they talk about them.