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@shebang Both are correct statements, neither contradict the other. It is simply you are ignorant of some basic statistics.

Since blacks make up 12.6% of the population but unarmed blacks are killed by police 25% - 33% of the time then blacks are disproportionately targeted by 2x - 3x more than whites.

It is..... #FF! 🎉

Who do you recommend following?

@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...

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

#GeorgeFloyd #Riots #protests #PoliceBrutality

In a world of empty corporate gestures, Lego just donated $4 million to anti-racist charities. They also pulled all advertising for police-related Lego sets.

@sim
I think it's the same video as this one:
youtu.be/HTF-85H_E6o

It's 17 minutes long and I havent watched it yet, but I'll check it out later today.

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It depends if you like thinking of not, I guess
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I actually wasn't aware that she had made a singular statement, I don't really follow her 😂 She's the kind of person I'd expect to have talked about this 24/7 since the riots tho. But I've been hearing lots of black voices saying the same thing in the wake of 's statements.
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