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With everyone having tunnel vision about just the Black Victims of police brutality, I think its important we highlight some of the non-black victims.
To be clear Blacks are disproportionately targeted and that does need to be part of the conversation. But this isnt a black issue, 75% of unarmed victims killed by police are white. This is an issue that effects us all of any race. Here are some of those victims, unarmed whites murdered by police.
Rhogena Nicholas - Killed by gunshot
Dennis Tuttle - Killed by gunshot
Jason Lewis - Killed by beating
Virgil Reynolds - Killed by gunshot
Regina Twist - Killed by taser in custody
Thomas Burns - Killed by gunshot
Dylan Papae - Killed by gunshot
Seth Victor - Killed by Taser
Francis Calonge - Killed by gunshot
And many thousands more
"Blacks are disproportionately targeted"
but
"75% of unarmed victims killed by police are white."
So which is it.
@shebang @freemo I thought he meant when compared with the black population. I think most people do...
But still yeah that doesn't make it a bigger problem than when it happens to white people...and if white people are getting killed more often by police, maybe it's more of a systemic issue than a racial issue.
But eh...nobody wants to talk about that...
Actually, whites are arrested far more often than whites (whites make up for 69% of arrests in comparison to blacks who make up for 27.4%). However, black admittedly are fatally shot slightly more often in proportion to the blacks arrested, at 0.007% of blacks in comparison to 0.006% of whites.
Stats used:
https://www.ojjdp.gov/ojstatbb/crime/ucr.asp?table_in=2
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
@milo @Locksmith @freemo @shebang It's not really an error, I punched the numbers in https://percentagecalculator.net/
If that's the case, they're both extraordinarily a small amount as a cause of death in the US.
Though to put it in perspective, taking the last estimate from the population clock from the US Census that would tally up to:
19,785 Whites killed by gunshot
and
23,082 Blacks killed by gunshot
To us that's not an 'insignificant' amount, but compared on the national population it is.
