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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
My mistake. I missed that line. I also disagree with that (as should be evident from what I said in my post).
EDIT: I should say that I definitely agree with this.
This is all pretty much inevitable. Everything after the initial killing, that is - that part could obviously have been avoided. But protests in response, including property damage (busted up police cars) was just obviously going to happen. Similarly, the escalation to riots and looting was equally inevitable once those protests started escalating.
I'm not sure it's possible to stop this from happening again, either. A good faith effort could be made to implement systemic, fundamental change in the way that police forces are organized in the USA, training could be augmented to directly address these types of incidents with a view to eliminating them, and at some point, a white officer is still going to kill a black suspect, somewhere. And the same thing will probably happen in response.
They still have to change police culture (whether they actually will, I'm considerably more skeptical about), but it seems naive to think that even honest, well intentioned steps in that direction will prevent this episode from playing out again in the future.
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There has been 1252 black people killed by police since 2015 in the US. We can safely assume that most of those shootings were done by white cops - lets say 1000.
We can pretty safely also assume there hasn't been 1000 violent protests about police shootings since 2015. So I'm pretty confident that a white police officer killing a black guy in justifiable situation isn't going to cause violent riots in most cases.
You could probably correlate violent protests with shootings where the police did something unnecessarily AND there was video of the incident.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graph...ings-database/