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"The data doesn’t indicate which shootings are justified (the vast majority) and which are cold-blooded murder (not many, but some). And maybe that would vary by race. I don’t know, but I doubt it,” Mr. Moskos said on his blog."In a year-long study, The Washington Post found that the kind of incidents that have ignited protests in many U.S. communities — most often, white police officers killing unarmed black men — represent less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings.
another article which gets into some detail:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news...e-whites-than-blacks-but-minority-d/?page=all
That's some LOL-worthy ignorance there. The main thrust of the issue is police using greater force and with less reservation against black men, especially in cases where deadly force was not justified. So this guy's answer is...to not look at that.
Also from that article:
"The fact-checking website PolitiFact concluded in August 2014 that police kill more whites than blacks after the claim was made by conservative commentator Michael Medved. PolitiFact cited data from the Centers for Disease Control on fatal injuries by “legal intervention” from 1999 to 2011.
“Over the span of more than a decade, 2,151 whites died by being shot by police compared to 1,130 blacks. In that respect, Medved is correct,” said PolitiFact.
But PolitiFact gave his assertion a “half true” rating because whites make up 63 percent of the population, while blacks make up just 12 percent.
“Yes, more whites than blacks die as a result of an encounter with police, but whites also represent a much bigger chunk of the total population,” PolitiFact said in its Aug. 21 post.
But PolitiFact did not take into account the percentage of those by race involved in violent crime or shootings of police, as Mr. Moskos did.
Despite the recent flood of media coverage involving police shootings, Mr. Moskos advised his readers to “keep all this morbidity in perspective,” reminding them that very few people, white or black, will ever be shot or killed by police.
“The odds that any given black man will shoot and kill a police officer in any given year is slim to none, about one in a million. The odds for any given white man? One in four million,” he said. “The odds that a black man will be shot and killed by a police officer is about 1 in 60,000. For a white man those odds are 1 in 200,000.”
The later compilation of data from state and local government data indicates, as referenced in the WaPo article posted higher above, that unarmed black men were shot by police at a 15 times higher rate than unarmed white men.
Something to consider. Especially if you say, happen to care about an unarmed black man in America. Which these young women probably do.
The question is a matter of perspective, which it seems is sorely lacking here. These young women aren't victims in a personal sense. What they are are young leaders who posed for a photo among friends--friends who have lived the similar experience of being young and black in country that treats blacks with far less respect and dignity than it automatically affords to white people.
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