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Hiku said:
Insidb said:

Unarmed blacks are shot by police at the same rate as armed whites: let that sink in.

We're not just talking about unarmed people. Because unarmed people can pose a threat as well. If they try to attack the officer, reach for the gun, or hurt someone else, etc.
We're talking about people who for example (on camera) ran away and were shot in the back. A 12 year old child who was holding a toy gun. People who according to forensics were on their knees with their hands on top of their head, etc.
Those were generally the stories that made major headlines, and when the Black Lives Matter movement began.

When the disparity between the unarmed and armed is so clearly grotesque and obviously delineated by race, everything else is just contextualizing a very serious policing problem.