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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.
I'm asking you to clarify your position with the numbers that you provided.
You are still cherry picking and limiting the context, none of your numbers make sense until you include black crime statistics vs white crime statistics. Police generally go where the crime is.
@shebang I beleive you misunderstand the word "ignorant" it simply means you didnt appear to know something.
You are correct the numbers dont make sense if you arent aware of the context , not being aware of information is called ignorance, thus my use of the term.
I am glad I was able to clarify it for you.
Anyway, its pretty obvious at this point -- thanks to your clarification -- that your post was just a virtue signal.
Yawn, anyway, I'm washing my hands of you. I was hoping for something of substance out of this but that's not your intention so never mind.
He can make his point to you then, I'm not getting sucked into a conservation with someone who immediately starts with insults. My time is worth more then that. You two have fun.
