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Originally Posted by Looch City
I think you're looking at this from the wrong point of view.
The goal is that these types of death be taken seriously and for there to be consequences for the police officers involved. The demand is not to "bring it to zero", it's to bring justice to those officers and then in turn the trend of deaths will come down (and hopefully close to zero).
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There certainly seems to be an effort to extend the responsibility beyond making the police officers responsible.
The logic trains is as follows: society is responsible for systemic racism, which is responsible for the plight of blacks, which is responsible for their more numerous interactions with police, which is responsible for greater police killings, which go unpunished because of systemic racism.
This logic then gets collapsed down to: Average Joe is responsible for black people getting killed by the police.
And it is upon that conclusion that looting and rioting get justified.
I have no reason to believe that if police officers were properly prosecuted for wrongful shootings that we would see a dramatic improvement in the state of social harmony in the US.