Posted on 06/03/2020 3:47:17 AM PDT by RaceBannon
Putting the violent rioting aside for a moment, politicians in both parties are insinuating that the killing of George Floyd was racially motivated and reflects a broader injustice against black citizens more than anyone else, which legitimizes the rage undergirding the riots, if not the riots themselves. This assertion is simply not borne out by reality.
According to the Washington Post’s searchable database on police shootings, nine unarmed black people were shot dead by cops in 2019, while 19 unarmed white people shared the same fate. So even before we examine whether these shootings were justified, there were more than twice as many fatal police shootings of white people than of black people.
Now obviously this database only analyzes shootings, not choking incidents, but if the case of Floyd is part of a broad trend rather than an aberration, we are certainly not seeing that reflected in the shootings. One poster on Twitter has done research into the nine cases of unarmed black people being shot by police, and in each one, it appears that the suspect was in the process of using potentially deadly force against the cop or another civilian.
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Floyd's family can sue for wrongful death, but destroying whole cities is a very bad response as Covid19 already has done a job on the big cities. Now these cities may take years or decades to recover. And many African American jobs have been permanently lost.
Facts have long not mattered with this. It’s a meme.
It’s not a meme. It’s an organized effort to stir up racial strife to prevent Trump’s re-election. And the pain from the effects will be felt long and hard in the black community.
Problems will not be solved as long as the powerful police unions refuse to get rid of bad apples in the force.
We need police reform. Period. Quit hiring guys who love beating up people. Commit to more and better training, including how to deescalate conflict. We need professionals not hot tempered bullies (not saying that characterization applies to more than a few). Fire officers who are on steroids so we have no more “roid rage.”
well that’s their problem. they know how to vote for other parties.
It’s an organized effort to stir up racial strife to prevent Trump’s re-election.
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Yep. White leftists...RICH ones at, that using their little pet minorities to regain power in the Whitehouse.
The reform needed is to allow police to use batons or black jacks to subdu resisters. There is no right to resist. There is no right to take away the police civil rights by endangering them physically and legally by resisting.
The problem is not now and never has been police. The problem attitudinal blacks, who always resist as a matter of course. The problem is racist African criminals.
A good solid tap on the head will eliminate the attitude and protect the cops
Extrapolated, gullibleconservatives like youare the problem.
You are not right.
“There is no systemic racism in policing”
But there’s a ton of mindless idiocy in HR. No one is vetted anymore I guess. Who hires the knuckle scraping criminals like this police murderer?
Heck! I had to jump through my own rectum for this dinky little job I have!
If that Minneapolis cop would have killed someone of a different race by kneeling on their neck would that make things any better?
The real issue is poor-quality hires in police departments.
That is true now, but they have been lying about the policing of blacks for years. One reason why there is a disproportionate rate of blacks killed to whites killed, by police, is blacks are much more involved in violent crime, on a per capita basis. They hide that relevant fact.
Mollycoddlers caused the problem
You are apparently a mollycoddler that prefers letting criminals hare the upper hand and be lawless.
Again not right
Floyd needed restraint but the officer didn’t do it properly resulting in Floyd’s death. It has nothing to do with race.
You’re discounting the fact they worked as bouncers together (the cop, and Mr. Floyd), and had personal issues, the fact that Mr. Floyd had fentenyl and meth in his system, and hell, he had COVID-19 as well. He also had a heart attack during the arrest.
None of those
It’s not often I disagree with Horowitz, but here I have to. Nothing is being “insinuated.”
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