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Originally Posted by TheScorpion
Unless I'm reading your post wrong, what you just said is police officers should expect all black people to be more violent because some black people commit violent crimes. That's profiling, by definition. Black people are not hardwired to commit crime. The reason they do so lies within the system that so often condemns them to economic hardship and other forms of racism.
Police officers are the executioner in the justice system far too often. This applies to all races. I can understand police using deadly force against shooters. But saying the levels of killing unarmed black people are proportionally sound is inherently flawed. There shouldn't be any proportions. The police shouldn't be killing anybody who is unarmed, and certainly nobody based on the idea that black people commit more violent crimes. That is racist.
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I apologize if I wasn’t clear, but I did not try to say that. The narrative that police are shooting black people disproportionately is simple not true. Unarmed white people are also being shot. On a second look the correct number is 24 white to 14 (Not 9)black in 2019.
-403 white suspects were killed by police
-24 were unarmed
-205 black suspects were killed by police
-14 black suspects were unarmed
-5.9% of white suspects killed were unarmed.
-5.6% of black suspects killed were unarmed.
The narrative that cops are racists gunning down black men is wrong. Black deaths are just in the media while white deaths aren’t. All the deaths are sad. But pushing this false agenda is just causing more division and chaos and that is needless and sad.