Unfortunately, situations like what happened to George Floyd are NOT surprising to anyone older than 40. The late, great comedian Richard Pryor did a famous routine from his classic album "That N***er is Crazy", in which he comments on what was going on in the news IN 1974. Sadly, this is so relevant to today that it's not funny. But damned if the routine still gets me to laugh out loud. *Warning: this clip contains language that may offend some, while give others an opportunity to revel in racist dogma. Or, it may give folks secure in their identity and with a decent social awareness to laugh like hell.*
Except that police brutality occurs less than .00001% of all police interactions. So we have a 99.9999% rate of no police brutality during police interactions. How much lower do you expect it can get.
How do you come to that number when a large portion of police brutality and harassment is never even reported. See that is the biggest problem when it comes to the police and black folks, you think black folks are handled by the police in the same manner you are.
Ahh, another right wing wonk so steeped in his bigotry that the point of the OP just whooshed over his head. Sad, but predictable.
Flying the Confederate Flag makes one lower than whale dump in my book. But for the sake of argument, can you supply the source of your stats? And then explain to the reading audience how this justifies ANYONE being unjustly killed by cops for either misdemeanor crimes of just being suspects....and why black folk disproportionately die of such? We'll wait.
Here we go again with the denial of systemic racism & bigotry in the USA. Do some honest research and you'll see that black folk are more likely to be arrested or jailed than their white counterparts for the very same crime. A few years ago, the ACLU did a study and prove that black criminals were more likely to get the death penalty than their white counterparts WHO HAVE THE VERY SAME RAP SHEETS. Don't take my word for it...look it up. Richard Pryor's assessment was dead on, as at the time there were several incidences across the country of black drivers getting shot by cops during a simple traffic stop...."accident" was the defense given by the cop.
Well folks like you want to see this type of enforcement continue, so of course you will make excuses to defend it.
In 2015, under Barack Hussein Obama there were 38 cases of unarmed black men being killed by police. In 2019 only 9 compared to 18 whites. Case closed.
Give me the numbers from 1900 to 2020. That also doesn't include the number of brutalities and harassments that go unreported.
First off, were do you get your stats? Because 34 percent of the unarmed people killed in 2016 were black males, https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-people-killed-by-police-america_n_577da633e4b0c590f7e7fb17 Secondly, quit trying to equate Obama with Dump regarding this subject, because Dump sure as hell has done more to inflame the situation than fairly solve it. If you think not, then just do some honest research of his various public bloviating.
23,000 cases of excessive force reported (and that’s over multiple years but let’s just assume it’s one year and it’s including all reports even the ones that were shown to be fraudulent.) Source: https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/n...ng-misconduct-records-police-cops/3223984002/ Given the 375M police contacts annually by all officers in every department let’s do a little math. My original math only included validated excessive force and only accounted for one year. So with these adjusted numbers it comes out to be .0061%. Meaning 99.9939% of all interactions don’t end in a complaint of excessive force. And given your ignorance on the civil war I’m not surprised of your stance on the flag.
Furthermore, passing counterfeit funds is not a misdemeanor. Second of all I didn’t say he deserved to die. What I said is, how low do you expect to be able to get it? Are you under the delusion that it can get to zero?
So what your trying to say is that no one should complain about the systemic problem of cops killing unarmed/innocent black folk over the years because the numbers are small....or complain about systemic problem of cops killing black folk suspected of misdemeanor crimes, traffic violations and such. GMAFB! https://www.huffpost.com/entry/black-people-killed-by-police-america_n_577da633e4b0c590f7e7fb17 If such were happening to white Spring Breakers or Mardi Gras revelers, all hell would be breaking loose...the cry lead by folk like you! As for the Confederate flag: one would have to be ignorant of history to pretend that the century of slavery preceding the creation of the Confederacy is a separate issue. You lost the Civil War. Deal with it.
I stand corrected on the counterfeit charge....but Floyd would have had to be taken to court to determine if he did so willingly/knowingly or not. He never got that chance. As to your stat fixation....why bring that up? WTF is the point of running the stats....to lessen the significance of innocent, unarmed black folk getting killed? Let me clarify for you....this is a systemic problem that has been known for over 40 years, and it's getting worse. Your stats are no consolation to the surviving family members of the victims. Now it's reached a tipping point where NO ONE can deny or trivialize this problem, where NOT JUST BLACK FOLK ARE COMPLAINING. Can we eliminate all racism and congenital bia in the police so this doesn't happen? Not likely, but I'll settle for an "extremely rare" occurrence.
