Officer in Georgia says to woman during traffic stop: "We only kill black people"

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Superman4 said:

Brii said:

I don't think people are denying that the comment was made at least mostly in jest, but it is reflective of a pretty horrific and dissmissive attitude the police have to a group of people they are supposed to protect and serve. Those people already feel targeted and are wary of the police and this only validates a genuine fear that being stopped by a police officer might result in them being killed.

If the comment isn’t being denied as jest than the rest of your statement is clearly BS. Joking doesn’t make anything fact, it doesn’t mean that he won’t protect a black person or even make the same joke to them and change the race " We only kill white people ".  It doesn’t validate a fear, it validates the media portrayal of police violence against black people. 

 

I suppose you are one of those people who believe that the prison system is made up of a majority of black people because police are racist? That they didn’t actually commit whatever crime they are convicted of? 

There are definitely instances where the police act out of fear and kill someone for no reason, it happens to all races. When you look at high crime rate areas though, most of them are inner cities with a higher black population.  Take a city like Chicago, how many murders this week? How many of those murders happened in predominantly black neighborhoods? I suppose it’s some white guy going around killing people in black neighborhoods, or maybe the cops just targeting that area for no reason. I’m not saying that all races don’t commit crime or that all black people are criminals. I do however refuse to dismiss the fact that areas with predominantly black population seem to be areas with the highest crime rates, Baltimore and Chicago for instance.

https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-09-29/race-and-homicide-in-america-by-the-numbers

 

 

1) Unarmed black men are shot by police at the same rate as armed white men.

2) Black youths are shot by police at 21 times the rate at white youths.

3) There is a no discernible difference between the rate of marijuana usage of whites and blacks, but blacks are are criminalized at a distinctly higher rate.

4) The pay-for-play private prison system has targeted and unjustly incarcerated minority youths at a much higher rate.

5) Blacks receive longer and harsher sentences for the same offenses as their white counterparts.

6) There have been recent convictions of judges involved in these discriminatory activities.

 

This is the problem with not understanding the context of statistics: as they say in baseball, "a bloop single looks like a hard line drive in the box score."