It could be that, typically (not always), when a white person is killed by the cops, they're shooting up a school or a Church and have to be put down to stop more deaths.
Meanwhile, typically (not always) when a black person is killed by the police they're un-armed, carrying a toy gun, doing petty crimes like shoplifting or even just walking along minding their own business.
I also think your 80% statistic is an over-estimation, since there's a black person being killed almost all the time and we virtually never hear of a white person being killed by the police.
And regardless of the fact, even if most victims are white, the police in America are still shooting anything like they think they're in the fucking wild west and they. have. a. violence. problem.
3.25 per million blacks have been killed this year by cops and 1.41 per million whites. So, it does sound a bit fucked up. Also if you compare the % people in prison for blacks vs. whites, those too reveal the same trend. So there might be something there. Where there is smoke....
And what the ones in jail are being punished for too.
We had a white rapist, the Stanford rapist (can't remember what his name is), he's getting 6 months in jail of which he'll only serve 3, for RAPE... and you've got thousands of black and/or Hispanic men in jail serving years, sometimes life even, just for drug offenses.
If this shit doesn't tell people that privilege (both wealth and race) are realities in America, I don't know what will.
So why don't we go down there and get 4 of "them"?
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It could be that, typically (not always), when a white person is killed by the cops, they're shooting up a school or a Church and have to be put down to stop more deaths.
Meanwhile, typically (not always) when a black person is killed by the police they're un-armed, carrying a toy gun, doing petty crimes like shoplifting or even just walking along minding their own business.
I also think your 80% statistic is an over-estimation, since there's a black person being killed almost all the time and we virtually never hear of a white person being killed by the police.
And regardless of the fact, even if most victims are white, the police in America are still shooting anything like they think they're in the fucking wild west and they. have. a. violence. problem.
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3.25 per million blacks have been killed this year by cops and 1.41 per million whites. So, it does sound a bit fucked up. Also if you compare the % people in prison for blacks vs. whites, those too reveal the same trend. So there might be something there. Where there is smoke....
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Exactly, exactly.
And what the ones in jail are being punished for too.
We had a white rapist, the Stanford rapist (can't remember what his name is), he's getting 6 months in jail of which he'll only serve 3, for RAPE... and you've got thousands of black and/or Hispanic men in jail serving years, sometimes life even, just for drug offenses.
If this shit doesn't tell people that privilege (both wealth and race) are realities in America, I don't know what will.
There is no way your numbers are accurate. What is the source?
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Why? Because it doesn't fit into your pre-conceived notions? Been living in a bubble, haven't we? Guardian Newspaper published it. Go look it up.
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Yeah I just checked the Guardian...you're numbers are still off by millions.
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2015/jun/01/the-counted-police-killings-us-database
The statistic came from the Washington Post. If you want to argue it maybe write a editorial to them.