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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]So, is it that police killing white people is not sensational, so it isn't picked up by media or is it that those incidents were deemed justified?  I'm trying to get a handle on this b/c it's all so scary and sad.[/quote]

I can't answer your question completely, but there are two anecdotal incidents of which I am aware and which I find interesting as part of this type of discussion. The first is the killing by police of Zachary Hammond, a white teenager. This case received very little attention until BLM started to bring attention to it:

http://aplus.com/a/zachary-hammond-black-lives-matter

The second is John Geer, a white man who was obviously unjustly killed by police. Geer's case was being suppressed by the authorities until Republican Senator Charles Grassley got involved. I think this is notable because Grassley represents Iowa, not Fairfax and I doubt few, if any, black men killed by police would have Senators, especially Republican Senators, intervening on their behalf.

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