[[It should be repeated loud and often to these idiots that 18.5 times more white police officers are killed by black men than “unarmed” black men are killed by white police officers.]]
ALL of last year- 2 unarmed black men were killed unjustifiably, and the officers involved in those cases were tried and convicted- i believe-
Meanwhile, 54 or so cops were shot and killed by armed perps last year- not sure what the color breakdown of perps is- but as you said- far more cops are shot by black perps than unarmed black perps are shot by police-
If anything- the cop is in far more danger from potentially armed perps than unarmed black folks are from ‘racist’ cops (of which there are very very few violent racist cops as evidenced by the stunningly low number of unarmed black people being shot unjustifiably by cops)
Wish the store clerk had known these facts and informed her how ignorant she is on the facts—
During the 25 years I was working as a firefighter and fire officer, we had about a dozen police in the local area killed by criminals. We went to so many police funerals that our chief was embarassed that other agencies were better dressed than we were. The Union and the Fire Department reached an agreement where we were all required to purchase Class A uniforms.
This included November 29, 2009 when four police officers were gunned down and died while they were at a local coffee shop. They were killed by Maurice Clemmons, a black guy with a long criminal history who had been released by the Governor of Arkansas Mike Huckabee where he was serving a 108 year prison sentence for crimes there. He moved to Washington and continued his life of crime. He was in jail for assaulting a police officer and raping a child but was released after posting a $150,000 bail bond one week before he massacred the 4 officers.
He was helped by others before and after he killed the officers; it was a planned ambush. Several were convicted but all that I am aware of had their convictions reversed on appeal and by liberal judges in our area, who found that there was misconduct by the police.
And, oh, yes... the number of unarmed black people killed by the police while I was a fire officer a big fat ZERO. I may not have always seen eye to eye with the police on every call that we responded to with them, but they have a tough and dangerous job.