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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 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.
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@freemo @shebang
>"75% of unarmed victims killed by police are white"
>"unarmed blacks are killed by police 25% - 33% of the time"
Wouldn't math mean that the second statement can't be more than 25% if the first statement is true? And considering there are more ethnicity than just white/black, the numbers in that second statement should be even lower.
Unless of course you meant to say something completely different in that second statement.
