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Police kill more whites than blacks, but minority deaths generate more outrage
Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, April 21, 2015 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 04/22/2015 1:08:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai

Nobel Prize-winning novelist Toni Morrison says she wants to see an officer shoot an unarmed white teenager in the back before agreeing that the “conversation about race” is over, but she almost certainly already has received her wish.

An analysis released last week shows that more white people died at the hands of law enforcement than those of any other race in the last two years, even as the Justice Department, social-justice groups and media coverage focus on black victims of police force.

“People keep saying, ‘We need to have a conversation about race,’” Ms. Morrison told the (U.K.) Telegraph in an April 19 interview. […]

As researchers are quick to point out, FBI data on police shootings by race is notoriously incomplete, which may explain why Peter Moskos, assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice at the City University of New York, decided to use figures from the website Killed by Police. Based on that data, Mr. Moskos reported that roughly 49 percent of those killed by officers from May 2013 to April 2015 were white, while 30 percent were black. He also found that 19 percent were Hispanic and 2 percent were Asian and other races. His results, posted last week on his blog Cop in the Hood, arrived with several caveats, notably that 25 percent of the website’s data, which is drawn largely from news reports, failed to show the race of the person killed. …

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government
KEYWORDS: blacklivesmatter; police; racehustlers; tonimorrison
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1 posted on 04/22/2015 1:08:57 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Facts are so inconvenient.


2 posted on 04/22/2015 1:10:57 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Olog-hai

“White lives don’t matter!”


3 posted on 04/22/2015 1:13:26 PM PDT by Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America
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To: Resolute Conservative

Hands Up...Don’t Run. What’s so hard about that?


4 posted on 04/22/2015 1:14:07 PM PDT by Oldexpat
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To: Olog-hai

I’m happy when any violent criminal is taken out of circulation, white, black, whatever.


5 posted on 04/22/2015 1:14:26 PM PDT by P.O.E. (Pray for America)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Does not advance the agenda.


6 posted on 04/22/2015 1:15:30 PM PDT by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: Olog-hai
He also found that 19 percent were Hispanic and 2 percent were Asian and other races.

WHAT 'OTHER RACES'????..............Are there some new ones we don't know about?..........space aliens?............

7 posted on 04/22/2015 1:15:32 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Resolute Conservative

Who can get ahead in politics by citing facts?


8 posted on 04/22/2015 1:16:57 PM PDT by skeeter
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To: Olog-hai

And blacks kill more blacks than whites do, but black deaths only generate outrage when they’re killed by white police.


9 posted on 04/22/2015 1:19:26 PM PDT by Maceman
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To: Red Badger

Native American, Eskimo, Aleut, Australian aborigine, Polynesian, Melanesian, etc.


10 posted on 04/22/2015 1:20:36 PM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: Red Badger

Canines


11 posted on 04/22/2015 1:21:34 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Sherman Logan

Are those ‘races’?..........We learned in school, way back in the 60’s that there were only 3 races. All others were a mixture of the three...............


12 posted on 04/22/2015 1:22:50 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Sherman Logan
Native American, Eskimo, Aleut, Australian aborigine, Polynesian, Melanesian, etc.

All part of the Mongoloid race. Exception being the aborigine, but that is currently in dispute with anthropologists. Thus far there are only 3 races on this marble...

13 posted on 04/22/2015 1:24:36 PM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: Maceman

There was a shooting of a car in Seattle last week. The one-year old baby in the back seat died. The uncle of the girl (black), after she had died, walked out of the hospital and across the street to a news crew. Decried the death, and that the gang bangers and gang wannabes (implicating his niece’s parents) need to stop it.

Of course I only heard that on the local conservative talk show. Once.


14 posted on 04/22/2015 1:27:11 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Red Badger

“We learned in school, way back in the 60’s that there were only 3 races.”

Yeah. I bet they also told you there were only two genders too!


15 posted on 04/22/2015 1:28:13 PM PDT by 21twelve (http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2185147/posts It is happening again.)
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To: Olog-hai

Of course there will be more whites than blacks shot and killed by cops. Whites outnumber blacks about 5:1.

But hey, don’t let facts get in the way of a good rant Ms. Morrison.


16 posted on 04/22/2015 1:30:10 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (Changing the name of a thing doesn't change the thing. A liberal by any other name...)
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To: 21twelve

AND they told us we were headed for another Ice Age!.............


17 posted on 04/22/2015 1:32:26 PM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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To: Red Badger

Depends upon who makes the definitions I guess.

Some use three and some use four:

Caucasion: Mongoloid: Negroid:

or

white/Caucasian, Mongoloid/Asian, Negroid/Black, and Australoid


18 posted on 04/22/2015 1:32:45 PM PDT by deport
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To: Red Badger

Horse race, dog race, rat race, human race.


19 posted on 04/22/2015 1:42:24 PM PDT by rightwingcrazy
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To: Olog-hai

bump


20 posted on 04/22/2015 1:43:32 PM PDT by gibsosa
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