Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 04:03:45 -0500 Mime-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Subject: Re: Shameful Police Behavior Newsgroups: rec.arts.tv References: <17c0fbd2a0d6f1d2$37199$3384359$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com> Content-Language: en-US From: trotsky In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 89 Path: ...!news-out.netnews.com!netnews.com!s1-4.netnews.com!feeder.usenetexpress.com!tr2.iad1.usenetexpress.com!news.newsdemon.com!not-for-mail Nntp-Posting-Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 09:03:15 +0000 X-Received-Bytes: 4720 X-Complaints-To: abuse@newsdemon.com Organization: NewsDemon - www.newsdemon.com Message-Id: <17c1cdf760bc0e80$139254$3265$48d50260@news.newsdemon.com> Bytes: 5048 On 3/30/24 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote: > In article , FPP > wrote: > >> On 3/29/24 2:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>> In article , FPP >>> wrote: >>> >>>> On 3/28/24 2:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> In article >>>>> <17c0fbd2a0d6f1d2$37199$3384359$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com>, >>>>> moviePig wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> On 3/27/2024 10:12 PM, BTR1701 wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>> Horrible seeing an officer execute this man in cold blood. Instead, the >>>>>>> cop should have contacted a social worker who could have delivered this >>>>>>> young scholar a housing voucher and an information packet on how to get >>>>>>> a free education. Shameful. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/1772745352371748864/vid/avc1/406x2 >>>>>>> 70/UgGHJWFb3Mux42gU.mp4?tag=14 >>>>>> >>>>>> I want to know what the perp thought worth his near-certain death. >>>>> >>>>> The perp has been brain-washed by 'progressive' policy and rhetoric to >>>>> believe that police are illegitimate and can be defied at will, no >>>>> matter if you're committing crime or not. >>>> >>>> So did George Floyd. He learned how legitimate it was to be black. >>>> >>>> Just like Walter Scott learned that 8 shots in the back was legitimate >>>> for a broken tail light. >>>> >>>> And Breonna Taylor found how legitimate it was to sleep in her own bed >>>> while black. >>>> >>>> And Philando Castille found out the 2nd Amendment doesn't apply to blacks. >>> >>> Cool. Now list all the unarmed white people killed by cops nationwide >>> during that same time period. See which list is longer. >>> >> Percentage wise, we KNOW who gets murdered more. > > Murdered? The overwhelming majority of police shootings are not murder. > They're investigated and found to have been legally justified. Some even > go to trial and most of those result in acquittals by jury. Since murder > is, by definition, "the UNLAWFUL killing of a human being", they are not > murder. Again, by definition. >> >> NBC News: >>> After all the attention the Black Lives Matter-led racial justice movement >>> generated after George Floydąs death in 2020, new data show that the number >>> of Black people killed by police has actually increased over the last two >>> years. >>> >>> According to data collected by The Washington Post, police shot and killed >>> at least 1,055 people nationwide last year, the most since the newspaper >>> began tracking fatal shootings by officers in 2015. That is more than the >>> 1,021 shootings in 2020 and the 999 in 2019. >>> >>> Black people, who account for 13% of the U.S. population, accounted >>> for 27% of those fatally shot and killed by police in 2021, according to >>> Mapping Police Violence, a nonprofit group that tracks police shootings. >>> That means Black people are twice as likely as white people to >>> be shot and killed by police officers. >> > And black people, who account for 13% of the U.S. population, accounted > for 56% of crime in America in 2021, according to the FBI's Uniform > Crime Report. Perhaps you can tell us where on the site this information exists? https://www.fbi.gov/how-we-can-help-you/more-fbi-services-and-information/ucr If you lack the brains and balls to do it just say so. > > Might that account for the disparity in shootings? A group that puts > itself in play by committing more violent crimes than anyone else is > going to come into contact with and be shot more by police. > > Again, the overwhelming majority of these police shootings are found to > be justified and a significant percentage of them are committed by black > and brown officers. Which means those black people who are shot are > doing things that justify shooting them.