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I'd never heard about this.  It just goes to show how much more young Black lives matter in 2020 than young white ones.  The police in Fairfax shot John Geer, another white guy, in 2013 and practically no one knew about it or protested at all.  [/quote]

Please pull out the stats from the last 5 years of white people, black people killed by police. Or go back to school. One antidote is not stats. [/quote]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/police-shootings-database/?itid=lk_inline_manual_5

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

You should be careful before saying dumb sh-t based on media lies vs. FACTS. The truth is being hidden from you. And its anecdote you buffoon, further proving that you should spend more time reading and less time talking.

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More whites killed overall but more blacks as percentage of population basically. Either way, ALL of it needs to stop. Period. Would be nice to hear someone say that instead of picking sides.[/quote]

It will stop when people stop committing violent crimes and not complying with commands of police officers. This is more prevalent in certain demographics, and that is why they are disproportionately involved in police shootings.[/quote]

I was in a small southern beach town a few weeks back, lots of Trump, blue lives and even a few confederate flags flying.  Long story short, and wish I’d had video, young man in pickup truck gets pulled over, given an excruciatingly long series of sobriety checks, things are going okay, crowd of onlookers, he’s doing a lot of talking. Cuffs come out and full on resisting arrest ensues.  I called it about 10 mins before this... commented it’s all fun and games until the cuffs come out.

Perp takes a few swings on the cops, tries to get away, gets pummeled, slammed into sidewalks, face first, knee on one kneck.

More shouting “I can’t breathe”. “I’m bleeding” yada, yada.  But he’s alive. Ambulance pulls up. Kids in car witness it all. They don’t even appear to be crying, maybe this is a routine thing for them, they are little no more than 7-8.

No Other parent visible, waiting for social services to show up and cart kids off, but no one shows up, rural Va on a late night holiday weekend.  Kids eventually are loaded into the ambulance too and off they go.

Perp was white, he resisted, he physically and verbally assaulted the officers, he was still loudly running his mouth and physically resisting, although not as vigorously when the ambulance showed up, he was drunk and driving with 3 young kids in the pickup.  He survived to do it all another day.  He was white, didn’t seem very bright, didn’t appear to be wealthy, and he resisted and physically assaulted more than one officer.

No one shot a video, although plenty of onlookers, 99% white, they seemed legitimately curious about the unfolding, but not shocked more like oh cool, this is good entertainment and it was....minus the kids (that part was Tragic and no doubt part of a never ending chain of dysfunction) It was good entertainment because no one died. The perp was white. Just another Saturday night in rural America.  White people commit plenty of crimes, they resist plenty, it’s human nature to resist capture and potential loss of freedom, especially with impaired judgment. I posit that the Phenomenon of resisting arrest is probably more common amongst white men, white privilege and all, entitlement and all that goes along with that. They just know they probably won’t end of dead as a result.

Is this another anecdote? Yes it is, but it is an anecdote that supports the stats, that yes they are arrested, yes they resist but they are just less likely to be killed.  The cop got off his neck, before he died and he left in an ambulance, because he was roughed up, he left in an ambulance, alive....[/quote]

Did you notice in all of that there was no reaching for a gun? Refusing to show his hands? Etc. that’s a big difference. People resist all of the time, you get shot when you  have a weapon , no matter the color. [/quote]
I wish you could come over here and join the rest of us white people who have had a crystallizing moment. I will never understand what it’s like to live as a Black American, but I acknowledge that they are not treated the same way you and I would be. I wish you could understand how bigoted, racist and stupid you sound when you imply that allllllllllll the black people who have been murdered at the hands of the police just weren’t following directions. It is offensive and blinkered in the extreme. Philando Castile wasn’t resisting arrest. Breonna Taylor wasn’t either. And even if they were, the penalty for not following directions isn’t death. [/quote]

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