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James xeno posted...

It's times like this that it's best to keep perspective. More than half of all the people killed by police each year are white. Also that doesn't happen nearly as often as the narrative claims it does. (unarmed deaths account for something like <6% of all deaths) As for a criminal record and such.. The one thing that nearly all of the publicized cases have in common is that attempts to resist arrest/fight back and or flee.

Black people are certainly killed disproportionately by the police and I do believe there are a significant number of racist police officers. But nobody ever seems to find it odd that you never see stories about white people being killed by the police despite it happening quite frequently. If people think that some of these aren't completely unjustified, they're deluding themselves. But the news would never bother to cover it. The problem with policing in America is way more than just rampant racism

Hell, a personal anecdote. My dad has had quite a lot of run ins with the law. He actually told me about one today that kinda shocked me even though I've heard and personally seen of it. Said when he was 16 he went to jail for weed and a cop woke him up by punching him in the mouth. He said that he, on pure instinct, kicked at the officer and didn't even touch him yet they charged him with assaulting a police officer

Shit like that happens in small towns a lot