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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
Well your numbers are wrong for one thing. 24 unarmed Whites and 14 unarmed Blacks. Not 9 unarmed Blacks. And the 5 year average is 23% of people killed by cops are Black while 13% of the population is Black. So it is a misrepresentation.
And mostly what scorpion said.
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You are correct that was honest mistake I was writing my reply to scorp when you posted this. You cannot just look at population disparities, while completely ignoring crime rate disparities. Black people committed violent crimes at a rate 2.8x of the rate of white people and they were also killed at the rate of 2.8x that of white people. The more violent police interactions a group had the more the likely hood of a police shooting. The question that needs to be asked is how can we help lower the violent crime rate.