(05-28-2020, 07:24 AM)TJBender Wrote:

(05-28-2020, 07:18 AM)Byron LeftTown Wrote: Fixed it 4 ya.

Except that there's video showing Floyd not resisting anything. It's funny how unrelated video in the Arbery case somehow exonorates (or at least strongly mitigates) three white men cornering and murdering a black man, but the video we have here of a pig kneeling on the neck of a man who was compliant while three other officers look on doesn't matter. Even if we go to the extreme and say that he was somehow, at some point, resisting arrest, kneeling on his neck until he dies is not the sort of tactic taught at the police academy.

Frankly, I think law enforcement in this country could use an enema.

(05-28-2020, 03:56 PM)Gabe Wrote:

(05-28-2020, 01:05 PM)Last42min Wrote: It doesn't matter if he was racist or not. It's unreasonable position to believe all cops or racist or that all police brutality towards blacks comes from racist ideology. This is typical race baiting nonsense that professors peddle to keep their jobs and a media that needs ratings. The data just doesn't support this claim. Using 2015 as an example (since it's the first data I found), there was 53.3 MILLION encounters with the police by US citizens. 20% of those were black, which makes it 10.66 million encounters blacks had with cops. That same year, 104 black people were killed by cops. Your likelihood of being killed by a police officer as an unarmed black man is 0.00000975609756097561. If you think this number is indicative of anything resembling a crisis, you are deluding yourself.

Yes. There is room for improvement with our Police. Yes. There will be bad actors. Yes. You may even find a racist cop. Yes. Blacks face discrimination in various forms in the US. None of that indicates the system is corrupt.

There are flawed people. Like almost all of America's leftist policies, they exploit the flaws of humanity to advance an ideology that won't actually solve the flaws in humanity.

Just out of curiosity - what if the number were closer to 0.5-0.6%? Would it be a crisis then?

Did you do the math? 500,000+ unarmed, black men would have to die from police brutality, per year, to reach that number. That's assuming all of them were 100% innocent from any wrong doing, too. You don't think that's a bit different than 104? There are accidents and bad actors, and it's safe to say that accounts for the .00000097% chance that someone dies unjustly by the police. 100 out of 10 MILLION encounters is nothing to fear, man. I would take those odds ALL day. Btw, it's not different for whites per encounter (in fact, it's slightly higher). No one cares.

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