This article examines the death of Colin Roach in Stoke Newington Police Station, Hackney, in 1983, and explores the emotional politics of the campaigns that followed his death. These campaigns were focused on both determining the circumstances of Roach's death and highlighting tensions between the police and the Black community of Hackney. Using hitherto unpublished archival sources, local newspapers, and visual sources, the article documents racial politics in Hackney in the early 1980s and examines the relationship between race and policing at that time. The article argues that the experience and expression of grief and anger were critical to understanding the political problem of race and policing in London in the 1980s, to forming and mobilizing political communities, and to interrogating the power of the state. The article also argues that a critical element of the emotional economy around race in Hackney in 1983 was the indifference and lack of empathy of the police in Stoke Newington to ethnic minority communities. This lack of empathy not only illustrated the problem of race within the police force at this time but further fueled local campaigns to make the police accountable. This links the Roach case to a later turning point—the 1999 Macpherson inquiry into the murder of Stephen Lawrence, which characterized the Metropolitan Police as institutionally racist.

本文研究了 Colin Roach 于 1983 年在哈克尼的斯托克纽因顿警察局去世，并探讨了他去世后竞选活动的情感政治。这些活动的重点是确定罗奇的死因，并突出警察与哈克尼黑人社区之间的紧张关系。文章使用迄今为止未发表的档案资料、当地报纸和视觉资源，记录了 1980 年代初哈克尼的种族政治，并研究了当时种族与警务之间的关系。文章认为，悲伤和愤怒的经历和表达对于理解 1980 年代伦敦的种族和警务政治问题、形成和动员政治社区以及质疑国家权力至关重要。文章还认为，1983 年哈克尼市围绕种族的情感经济的一个关键因素是斯托克纽因顿警察对少数族裔社区的冷漠和缺乏同情心。这种缺乏同理心不仅说明了当时警察部队内部的种族问题，而且进一步助长了地方要求警察负责的运动。这将罗奇案与后来的转折点联系起来——1999 年麦克弗森对斯蒂芬·劳伦斯 （Stephen Lawrence） 谋杀案的调查，该调查将大都会警察局定性为制度性种族主义。