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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Everyone does realize that the police officer is also black, right??!?[/quote]
I know. That's the weird thing. The cop is black....the police chief is black....the mayor is black.....and yet, this shooting is due to racism?[/quote]

It is not individual racism thats an issue here. it is systemic racism when the police force ALL over the country SOMEHOW shoots unarmed black people in so many cases. It happens in a much smaller number to whites. That is systemic and it has to be fixed. Denying it doesn't exist is like denying that mass murders are mostly committed by white men with a gun. [/quote]

It doesn't happen in a smaller number to whites. What you said isn't true. [/quote]

That is wrong and Do not LIE. If you post what you can't back up thats a lie. Unarmed Blacks have been killed at 5x the rate of unarmed whites by cops.  Check the link below.

http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/unarmed/[/quote]

NP here. 
Unarmed blacks are killed at a higher rate than cops. But, you have to look more closely at each incident.  “Unarmed” does not necessarily mean “innocent.”  Nor does the fact that a black person who was shot and killed by a police officer was the target of a police-involved shooter - he/she could have been a bystander and not targeted at all.

[quote]The Post's data does show that unarmed black men are more likely to die by the gun of a cop than an unarmed white man...but this does not tell the whole story. In August 2015, the ratio was seven-to-one of unarmed black men dying from police gunshots compared to unarmed white men; the ratio was six-to-one by the end of 2015. But Mac Donald points out in The Marshall Project that looking at the details of the actual incidents that occurred paints a different picture:

The “unarmed” label is literally accurate, but it frequently fails to convey highly-charged policing situations. In a number of cases, if the victim ended up being unarmed, it was certainly not for lack of trying. At least five black victims had reportedly tried to grab the officer’s gun, or had been beating the cop with his own equipment. Some were shot from an accidental discharge triggered by their own assault on the officer. And two individuals included in the Post’s “unarmed black victims” category were struck by stray bullets aimed at someone else in justified cop shootings. If the victims were not the intended targets, then racism could have played no role in their deaths.

In one of those unintended cases, an undercover cop from the New York Police Department was conducting a gun sting in Mount Vernon, just north of New York City. One of the gun traffickers jumped into the cop’s car, stuck a pistol to his head, grabbed $2,400 and fled. The officer gave chase and opened fire after the thief again pointed his gun at him. Two of the officer’s bullets accidentally hit a 61-year-old bystander, killing him. That older man happened to be black, but his race had nothing to do with his tragic death. In the other collateral damage case, Virginia Beach, Virginia, officers approached a car parked at a convenience store that had a homicide suspect in the passenger seat. The suspect opened fire, sending a bullet through an officer’s shirt. The cops returned fire, killing their assailant as well as a woman in the driver’s seat. That woman entered the Post’s database without qualification as an “unarmed black victim” of police fire.

Mac Donald examines a number of other instances, including unarmed black men in San Diego, CA and Prince George's County, MD attempting to reach for a gun in a police officer's holster. In the San Diego case, the unarmed black man actually "jumped the officer" and assaulted him, and the cop shot the man since he was "fearing for his life." MacDonald also notes that there was an instance in 2015 where "three officers were killed with their own guns, which the suspects had wrestled from them."[/quote]

http://www.dailywire.com/news/7264/5-statistics-you-need-know-about-cops-killing-aaron-bandler[/quote]

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