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Originally Posted by CamaroRSOnt
Facts of the matter last year from the Washington Post which has tracked police killings since 2015...
For 2019 - source Washington Post database:
19 unarmed white suspects killed by police
10 unarmed black suspects killed by police
7,700 black men killed by black men
48 cops killed by black men.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...hootings-2019/
play with the dropdowns. 10 were unarmed, 5 had toys, 8 had "unknown ...whatever that means, 18 had a vehicle ...
And white people had more. But that doesn't mean there's no problem ... black people make up about 17% of the US population, but have almost the same number of deaths (total deaths) as white people who make up 76+ % of the population.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...ings-database/
Some pretty charts to put that population difference into perspective.
The idea that black people are more violent than white people is ignoring that they're not treated the same way as white people. The're not policed the same way as white people. You could overlap that statement to some extent with poor neighborhoods and more affluent neighborhoods. Even for the same crimes, poor people are criminalized disproportionately to their richer counterparts. It's a cycle of what amounts to harsher oppression of a group of people causing that people to be more violent that needs to stop and it needs to stop with the biased policing that has been going on since the country was founded.
The takeaway regarding police shootings as opposed to civilians shooting other civilians is that cops tend to get away with it regularly and on top of that they're biased in doing it to minorities and we're all paying them to do it.