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by loveyourmother
2766 days ago
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> I visited your link and could not see a matching statistic. I was wrong. Police kill twice as many whites but I shouldn't have included the unarmed qualifier. > I then also had a quick look at the article for "Brett Luengo" He did attack but I think it still qualifies. I personally didn't hear of this one but a google search shows it was covered, even if not very extensively. It was picked up on national news. Even still, the comment that law enforcement is wholesale killing young unarmed black males is just false. |
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I was trying to say that a) you were massively off about the relative quantities of unarmed shootings and that b) in any case; I would imagine people are more upset - i.e. it's in the national news - about e.g. [0] than; e.g. Brett Luengo, because there's a huge difference in the circumstances surrounding their deaths, something which cannot be interpreted from the statistics you cited.
Further, my admittedly limited & poor knowledge of the situation caused me to infer that the op was talking about this qualitative difference, although you are correct in saying that if you take the statement "we cannot seem to stop shooting unarmed black men" absolutely, strictly, literally; without applying any context whatsoever, then talking about quantities is completely valid.
So - my apologies.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Walter_Scott