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1. banana+X8[view] [source] 2020-06-16 22:51:52
>>miles+(OP)
I am black. If I was in the United States I’d have a dashcam and would wear a bodycam if possible.
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2. chrisj+w9[view] [source] 2020-06-16 22:56:32
>>banana+X8
The data doesn't seem to back up your claim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Police_use_of_deadly_force_in_...
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3. smnrch+eb[view] [source] 2020-06-16 23:08:18
>>chrisj+w9
I mean, wearing a body cam all the time is an overkill. That being said, your link does not prove that. The number of people killed by the police is just the tip of the iceberg. There would be an order of magnitude more people being seriously harmed (paralyzed, blinded, etc.) by the police than killed. There would be an order of magnitude more people mildly harmed (bruises, cuts, chipped tooth, etc.) than than seriously harmed.

By the time you get to incidents like police's violent arrest of SNL's Jay Pharoah [0], complete with knee on the neck (fortunately not long enough to kill him), you have potentially hundreds of thousands of people being affected and treated like this every year.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IV5KpbUPeSU

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4. chrisj+zc[view] [source] 2020-06-16 23:17:56
>>smnrch+eb
Police killings are a lot like fear of letting kids walk to school, fear of planes, fear of skydiving. I think there is a term for it but I'll just say it's common misconceptions that have been painted wrongly by news and word of mouth.

Murder rates have gone down since 70's and at their lowest point, but with the introduction of national and world news it makes people think murders have gone up, so they don't let their kids walk to school. Some people have an irrational fear of flying because of news. People have fear of skydiving because they watch too many movies and think a parachute will fail, when the data shows the exact opposite. 99% of are deaths not related to parachute failing.

So I see the police killings as a world that has gotten smaller, video camera's in everyones pocket and social media that has painted a picture of world that doesn't exist. It strikes fear into people and the psychological issues will be felt for decades.

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5. august+lg[view] [source] 2020-06-16 23:46:11
>>chrisj+zc
Except deaths resulting from your examples are generally not state-sponsored and then covered up by the very same people that are supposed to protect us.
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