| Sumario: | So - the liberal objection would go - riots involve a basic disrespect for the very ideal of law, and because of this, even if we can sometimes make sense of them as making evaluations and demands, it is not reasonable to expect those speech acts to receive much uptake in the sort of collective deliberation that is supposed to be at the heart of democratic self-governance. The addressee and audience of vocative speech acts will often be one and the same, but they may come apart, as in the present example: "Narendra Modi" is a vocative that addresses Modi without constituting him as the speech act's audience. Our focus is on those riots, such as much of what grew out of the BLM protests and out of Trump's rally, that communicate disapproval of the standing political authority. George Floyd was killed in Minneapolis on May 25, 2020, by a white police officer who kneeled on his neck for more than eight minutes.
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