Quote:I don't care what the averages are, that's far to many. That's more citizens killed by police in a decade than we lost soldiers in Iraq. 

 

Of course, 1 innocent person is far too many...

 

However, the majority of those officer related homicides were justified and upheld in a court of law.  Even if none of those were ruled justified, numbers that indicate you are twice as likely to die of a lightning strike as getting killed by a police officer is hardly proof that criminal police homicide is endemic in the United States.

 

You are far, far, far more likely to be killed by someone who is unemployed than a police officer. 

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