Re:America is giving up on the pandemic?
by jl6 on Sunday June 07, 2020 @03:29PM
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Is that 300-1000 unjustified deaths, or does it also include situations where the use of deadly force may have been reasonable?
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Re:America is giving up on the pandemic?
by mynameishere on Sunday June 07, 2020 @04:46PM
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/investigations/polic...
Filtering for "2019, black, unarmed" you get:
15 people shot and killed by police match your filters (less than 1%)
Change that to "2015" and you get:
38 people shot and killed by police match your filters (1%)
A similar amount die from tasers, then you have ones that die from chokeholds etc like Floyd, and then you have the ones that "die in police custody".
People are also marching for deaths caused by other citizens that were first swept under the rug, like Ahmaud Arbery.
I guess it’s certainly “possible” that US cops justifiably shoot and kill more people every year than most counties have done of the last hundred (assuming they have ever done it at all), just not very possible.