Date: Sun, 31 Mar 2024 04:03:45 -0500
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On 3/30/24 3:28 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
> In article <uu9f2e$13o15$1@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
>> On 3/29/24 2:23 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>> In article <uu6it2$b577$9@dont-email.me>, FPP <fredp1571@gmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On 3/28/24 2:00 PM, BTR1701 wrote:
>>>>> In article
>>>>> <17c0fbd2a0d6f1d2$37199$3384359$c2d58868@news.newsdemon.com>,
>>>>>     moviePig <never@nothere.com> 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.