candycorn
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Yes, it could have and it would continue to be a meaningless misleading cherry picked set of examples. Again, not even anecdotal - it exists to mislead and nothing else.The graphic is clearly a case of cherry picking data. That is not even anecdotal evidence - it is actually the opposite.Is that what passes for evidence in your mind?
Anecdotal evidence, yes.
The reason I brought it up was the bogus charge that Liberals “blame white privilege”. I was just demonstrating that it is true; which it is. Liberals blame the person who did the killing for the killing; not their religion—which is not what they represent regardless if it is Christianity, Judism, Islam, etc…. Some comments that are made about white privilege are verifiable; most are way overblown in my opinion.
I’m actually quite happy that these guys are still alive. That means the police were not trigger happy when they certainly could have been. I wish they were like that more often…thats all.
I would agree we have a major issue with the escalation of force within out policing community. The race angle there is WAY overplayed though - this idea that police are out there killing young black men with enormous impact is asinine. Most of those young black men are being killed by other young black men. Same shit with white men. most of them are killed by other young white men. The police, while being overly aggressive, do not even mark a statistical blip on those deaths.
It could have showed a lot more examples
Except it doesn't.
Root...Still alive after gunning down innocent people
Movie Theater guy....still alive after gunning down innocent people
Loughner--guy who Shot a US Congresswoman and a Federal Judge...still alive.
Sandra Bland; stopped for making a U Turn. Dead after arrested
Guy in NY selling cigarettes. Dead after arrested
Walter Scott. Dead after being shot in the back.
If you don't think this represents a pattern of police behavior...well...you're simply not willing to acknowledge the facts in front of you.
That being said those who were killed acted, in my opinion, stupidly in the presence of authorities. But they didn't kill anyone which one would think would lead to cops being hyper aggressive.