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by AnonCoward4 1535 days ago
This is disingenious at best. Looking at the population ratio vs killing makes no sense whatsoever. In that case just use that to justify why men are more often subject to police violence than women. We all know why, but with race there may be no differences ... but there are.

In the case of race you can't just ignore that black people do roughly 50% of violent crimes (just look at arson, don't even try to excuse it) and make up 25% of the lethal shootings with police.

It's also obvious why the racism is the other way around than some people make it out to be. Every police officer thinks twice to shoot on someone with dark skin because of the media coverage that can and often does take place. With killing white people, even if unjust this is rarely if ever a headline (except you can spin it, like when he helped a PoC).
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antattack 1535 days ago
Would you not accept that African-Americans might be victims of circumstances? As shown in the article it matters where you live. Also, criminal who's house FBI forcefully entered was not 'white'.
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AnonCoward4 1534 days ago
> Would you not accept that African-Americans might be victims of circumstances?

I don't introduce new standards for them. If you want to mitigate racism, hold them accountable for their actions and don't act like people with a different skin tone can take no responsibility.

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Bilal_io 1535 days ago
> black people do roughly 50% of violent crimes

Thank you for this information. So do you support the fact that police in this country are working as a judge, jury and executor?

I am sorry, but if I were you, I'd be ashamed to use such justification for people's killings.

Let's focus on the issue at hand, policing violence is a problem that needs to be addressed, putting the blame on one side or the other because "they're more violent" is not a good start to any serious discussion except to shield police from their actions.

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AnonCoward4 1534 days ago
> I am sorry, but if I were you, I'd be ashamed to use such justification for people's killings.

It's a statistic, that is more relevant than plain population share.

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