Re:My family saw a police car hit a kid, then I learned how ...
by uoaei on Tuesday June 23, 2020 @01:50PM
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Agreed, the comparison between who kills black folks is irrelevant. The comparison that is relevant here is who police officers kill.
This page is a good summary of the relevant statistics: https://beehivemedia.com/dataviz/when_police_kill_in_black_a...
This is, of course, as true as it is irrelevant. Because police can be 1/7th as likely to kill black people as non-police, and that's still far, far too many and a completely different category of murder (because the murderers are rarely punished, and are protected by the power of the state). Even if cops were 1/70th as likely to be the murderer of a black person, it's too many.
Some kinds of death are both avoidable and morally reprehensible for a society to allow or condone.