(05-28-2020, 08:28 PM)NYC4jags Wrote:

(05-28-2020, 08:14 PM)Last42min Wrote: No. I said out of every 10 MILLION reported interactions between a black man and a police officer, 100 unarmed black men have been shot. Can you read?

I used data from a the Bureau of Justice website from 2015.

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Also, that's police initiated contact. Meaning, the cops weren't called by said person.

All due respect to math, decimal points, and negligent shootings, but this is more of a "can we please not choke the life out of the handcuffed man begging you not to choke the life out of him" type of issue.

Who disagrees with that? I can't find one person that thinks this was acceptable, including many police departments that have come out to condemn it. This cop was clearly unfit for the position and deserves punishment. I condemn the act. However, I am addressing a different issue in this thread, because what should have been a bipartisan issue about our shared humanity has been handcuffed to a lie that police are killing blacks in mass numbers. This narrative should not be supported by anyone. It is not ok to use a minuscule sample size as evidence of widespread corruption and racism. People are literally rioting because they believe they are being murdered by police, but the numbers do not bear this out. This isn't because it's a rampant problem. It's because the media pushes a narrative because it makes them money and happens to fit the world view of a majority of journalists and editors. 

You will not solve human error, either from bad judgement or poor character. You could make the entire police department black, and there would still be unjust killings. As an aside, it's a statistical fact that black police officers are more likely to kill black suspects, and this holds true for other races, too (whites kill more whites, hispanics kill more hispanics). Just stop telling people they are being killed by a racist institution. It's a LIE.

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