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1 posted on 02/20/2022 2:09:17 PM PST by dennisw
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Since blacks are more likely to murder blacks, perhaps the laws against murder should be erased in the name of equity?!


2 posted on 02/20/2022 2:12:06 PM PST by the_Watchman
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<< Black cyclists were four times as likely to be stopped as whites >>

I’m guessing they were also far more likely not to wear one.

Ridiculous racial angle aside, I’ve never been a fan of helmet laws.


3 posted on 02/20/2022 2:13:03 PM PST by Mr. Mojo
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“black cyclists were almost four times as likely to receive a citation for violating the helmet rule as white cyclists”

This is unconscionable. Whites are going to have to step up and shoulder their fair share of crimes.


4 posted on 02/20/2022 2:13:09 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (“Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys,” O’Rourke)
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Black cyclists were four times as likely to be . . . carrying controlled substances to their customers. There. That fixes that problem.


5 posted on 02/20/2022 2:13:34 PM PST by jonrick46 (Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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“...black cyclists were almost four times as likely to receive a citation for violating the helmet rule as white cyclists...”

Are they saying that black cyclists without helmets get tickets and white cyclists without helmets don’t???

Or are they saying that four times MORE black cyclist ride without helmets than do white cyclists???


6 posted on 02/20/2022 2:14:17 PM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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It couldn’t have anything to do with being smart enough to wear a helmet.


7 posted on 02/20/2022 2:14:54 PM PST by ImJustAnotherOkie (Let's go Brandon)
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It was not enforced disproportionately. It was enforced against the OFFENDERS, who are mostly highly privileged members of preferred minority groups.


9 posted on 02/20/2022 2:17:09 PM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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Helmet laws, a violation of personal autonomy, were put in place to protect the general public from the high cost of treating accident victims without helmets.

Mandated vaccines, a violation of personal autonomy, are meant to protect the general public from the high cost of ventilators.

If they can willy nilly get rid of helmet laws why not vaccine mandates as well?

But that assumes that our dear leaders are not hypocritical totalitarians.

11 posted on 02/20/2022 2:17:32 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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Despite what affirmative-action government bureaucrat racists say, traffic laws are not enforced disproportionately, they are broken disproportionately.

https://anncoulter.com/2014/09/03/speed-kills-racial-profiling-study/


14 posted on 02/20/2022 2:24:18 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum ("Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy." ― Mao Zedong [FJB])
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It seems certain demographic groups are predisposed not to obey laws and to commit crimes, including murder.

15 posted on 02/20/2022 2:25:57 PM PST by Governor Dinwiddie (LORD, grant thy people grace to withstand the temptations of the world, the flesh, and the devil.)
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Maybe the reason black cyclists were cited four times as much as whites for not wearing a helmet is because they were four times as likely not to wear a helmet. Maybe white cyclists (who tend to be middle-class and up) - are more safety conscious than young, macho blacks.


16 posted on 02/20/2022 2:26:28 PM PST by Steve_Seattle
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That's probably because blacks in Seattle are four times as likely to be criminal suspects.

Socialists continue to pander to their base -- black criminals.

17 posted on 02/20/2022 2:26:30 PM PST by Kazan
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LOL - black people don’t follow a law, so let’s drop it! I guess we don’t need it anyway!


21 posted on 02/20/2022 2:36:54 PM PST by PGR88
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60 percent of citations went to people who were homeless
***So writing that ridiculous ticket never really worked as a revenue generator.

Eventually, Seattle is going to learn what some nitpicking revenue generating cities have learned, and that is to fund their building permits commission with ticket writing revenuers. Because when the time comes to sell the house or property, the city has a lien on it. Naturally, they won’t be able to keep it up on the slums which drift into abandonment.

I learned recently when I tried to renew my registration that parking tickets now block your registration of any vehicle. Cops and revenuers have figured out whose blood to suck.


22 posted on 02/20/2022 2:38:00 PM PST by Kevmo (I’m immunue from Covid since I don’t watch TV.🤗)
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Does that explain why they allow minorities to kill minorities - they know that a greater percentage do the killing than among Whiteys. They don’t want disproportional arrest rates so they deliberately and intentionally do nothing about the killing. They’re going to blame Whitey anyway.


23 posted on 02/20/2022 2:40:23 PM PST by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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I’d like to ask Seattle why they had been so incredibly racist, all these years, until today?


24 posted on 02/20/2022 2:44:35 PM PST by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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What does a bike helmet law have to do with race?
I thought helmet laws were about safety.


25 posted on 02/20/2022 2:48:13 PM PST by tennmountainman ( Less Lindell CONS, More AZ Style Audits)
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I bet they stopped all the hot white chicks too.


26 posted on 02/20/2022 2:51:23 PM PST by SaxxonWoods ("If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies in yourself." - Minquass)
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The soft racism of low expectations, Volume MMXXII.


29 posted on 02/20/2022 2:55:31 PM PST by lee martell
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In addition to the obvious absurdity, this hurts blacks. They wear helmets less, therefore reminding them to wear helmets saves some of their lives. They want the right to not be protected from brain injuries.

Wouldn’t this also mean they shouldn’t be made to wear seat belts?


30 posted on 02/20/2022 2:59:41 PM PST by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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