Statistics paint a different picture. Given that there is a police response to crime, a white criminal is more likely to be shot by the police.
I have seen plenty of public outcry over police violence when the suspect was behaving violently. The riots in Ferguson are the obvious example. Evidence of powder burns and of DNA in the car show that the BLM story was clearly false. The evidence is consistent with the story given by the cop. It's been like that for every case that I've researched, so at this point I'm done with research. It's always the same, more or less.
Do you think there are no black cops abusing
their power, or that there are no white victims?
You got that distorted perspective from the media bias.
It's just not that way. Some statistics even point the other way.
So, it's very telling when (nearly always white)
officers leap to unnecessarily violent tactics
on (nearly always Black) victims.
Nonetheless, while the overall reality of police killings in America is less dramatic than "nearly always", but it worrisomely lopsided. Black Americans are killed by police at a per-capita rate of roughly 2:1 compared to white Americans.
https://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2020-06-03/data-show-de...
That is... not good. How do you explain that?
1. What race has the biggest number being killed by cops? (answer: white)
2. What race has the most per-capita being killed by cops? (answer: black)
3. What race is most likely to be killed by cops if they get in a police confrontation? (answer: white)
The obvious solution for non-equality with #2 is to fix the culture so that conflict with the cops is less likely. Don't do crime. If you are stopped by cops, be fully compliant and don't look like a threat. When stopped by the cops, don't even think of reaching for something they can't see. You just wait, and then you'll be able to sort things out in court.
Eh, we also should fix the non-equality with #3. It shouldn't be more excusable to shoot white people.
"The media" also exalts policemen and soldiers as heroes, with countless reminders to thank our "heroes" and millions of hours of Hollywood entertainment devoted to showcasing heroic soldiers and cops. Much of the media denounces the protests as well.
Surely you see the irony in using an equally loaded set of terms yourself?In all of the incidents that sparked outcry, police were shown on video using vastly asymmetrical force against victims who were nonviolent or who had already been subdued. One, Breona Taylor, was in bed when police knocked down the wrong door when serving a no-knock warrant. Elijah, the teen injected with ketamine, was nonviolent and had no history of violence or crime.
There are a lot of incidents of police violence in which the suspect is behaving violently and, in these cases, I have not seen public outcry.