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ironmanDX on 01 September 2017
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Soundwave said:
A_C_E said:

These kind of statements never cease to impress me. I'm not sure if it gets worse everyday or people are just more comfortable (kind of ironic) with projecting their factually vulnerable "feels".

There are those that base evidence on their "feels" and there are those that base evidence on reality. We have two things; reality and interpretation of reality. When someone says they feel (interpretation) targeted, it does not mean they are targeted. Being stopped by a police officer might result in them being killed? How many traffic stops take place versus how many innocent people have been shot by police officers during a traffic stop? Again, I find myself impressed since the collective evidence suggests that the chances of an innocent person getting killed by a police officer at a traffic stop couldn't be anymore closer to zero. The number of people who have won the lottery greatly outnumbers the amount of innocent people being shot by a police officer during a traffic stop.

The question is, do the "feels" outweigh reality?

Probably easy to feel this way when you've never been put in a position where a routine situation could lead to you getting shot. 

That dude who was choked to death by several officers for selling CDs on a street corner or the kid that was shot to death for wearing a hoodie while walking home or that other dude who was shot to death like 8 times in front of his daughter while simply reaching for his papers ... yeah if that happened to people who speicifically looked exactly like you, I imagine you might have a different POV in that scenario. 

This one?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Trayvon_Martin#George_Zimmerman

Not even done by a police officer.

As for the "reaching for the papers" incident, the driver Philando Castile had informed the police officer he had a gun on him and the officer reacted based on how he was reaching into his pocket. This points to poor training... again. I didn't hear of the shooting in Louisiana until now. Which I think is understandable, considering I'm on the other side of the world.

 

At this point, I don't even know what you're arguing about. The gun happy US and lack of training is the real issue here.