[roboys]

US police are the 6th leading cause of African American deaths.

I watched an HK detainee get tortured in a hospital in horror, then remembered we kill thousands of unarmed people every couple years without any trial (many of whom are innocent) and 50-60% of victims are either mentally or physically disabled in some way. Many of them get tortured in similar ways if they make it to prison.

In a different framing, the US looks pretty horrible in comparison to China. It's just that we have gotten used to our own brand of stink.

[lunchables]

>US police are the 6th leading cause of African American deaths.

No it's not.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/233310/distribution-of-t...

Only 215 black people were killed by police last year.

>https://www.theroot.com/here-s-how-many-people-police-killed...

[BurningFrog]

General apolitical point:

Phrases like "6th leading cause" contain no information.

Is that 5% or 0.01%?

There is no way of knowing, and depends entirely on how deaths are categorized in some unknown underlying classification system.

[whatshisface]

You don't think Chinese police have brutality incidents?