Asclepias
Diamond Member
The only white guys I have seen shot by cops are like the nazi racist type.Yeah, probably, if they had interviews with their families on TV and so on.If they highlighted cases of whites getting killed then they would have already done something about the cops. They dont want to do that because its easier for whites to accept what the cops are doing if its only happening to "those people".I agree with your points: that black people are killed disproportionately by police, in much higher numbers in correlation to population size.If you had actually read the data in the study and used the simple tools to drill down through the information, you would have noticed that 38 unarmed black people were killed by police versus 20 unarmed white. Almost 2 times the difference which is a disparity that deserves questioning.
Still though, I also find it sad that many of the cases of unarmed white people getting killed by police are getting less attention, even though they could also help in some way to get some police reform through, and because they are also abuses of the police that should be punished.
There are many cases, I found a whole bunch of videos on youtube.
Also I think doing so would highlight the difference in why the different races were killed and the lengths cop go through in order to spare lives prior to having to shoot a white suspect vs a Black one.
And often (although not always), it's the same mentality that gets the white people killed: they dress like hip-hoppers, or hippies, or whatever other group that particular cop hates. Of course you can't say it's racism because it defies the category of race, but it's a similar mentality.