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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
I disagree. The dozens of shooting deaths of unarmed white and latino Americans at the hands of police every year get almost no media attention. When black Americans are shot by police it elicits far more media attention and public debate, because of the political climate around race in the U.S.
If you ran a poll of how many unarmed whites are killed by police in the U.S. every year, what number do you think most people would come up with? I doubt it would be close to the real number.
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Are you suggesting the attention now being paid to police shootings is not because of the factual evidence of systemic racial bias, but merely sensationalism?