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1. pjc50+Ck[view] [source] 2020-06-23 15:42:03
>>danso+(OP)
> “I blame myself,” she kept saying. “I never let him out on Halloween. A bunch of Black boys together. I shouldn’t have let him out. But he begged me.”

Notice that while average white parents might worry about criminals before letting their kids out on the street, the black parents worry (with good reason) about the police.

(Just to spell it out: this is why so many BLM activists feel comfortable saying "abolish the police" or "defund the police", because from their point of view the police are the people most likely to assault or kill them or their children on the street, more so than random criminals)

> “Young teens or pre-teens of color were handcuffed, arrested, or held at gunpoint while participating in age-appropriate activities such as running, playing with friends, high-fiving, sitting on a stoop, or carrying a backpack.”

This is child abuse.

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2. centim+7N[view] [source] 2020-06-23 17:25:26
>>pjc50+Ck
> because from their point of view the police are the people most likely to assault or kill them or their children on the street

This is a delusion - they are at least 2 orders of magnitude more likely to be assaulted or killed by another (non-police) black person.

This is yet another scenario where a relatively minor source of risk gets vastly disproportionate coverage and almost everyone falls for it.

ETA: it’s funny that this straightforward statement of objective fact is being so poorly received.

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3. fwip+KU[view] [source] 2020-06-23 17:55:11
>>centim+7N
One of the big differences is, when a cop assaults or kills a black man, black people are expected to say "thank you sir, you have done a good thing today. We appreciate that you have inflicted violence upon us."

Also, "at least 2 orders of magnitude" sounds like a big overestimate. In 2018, 2570 black people were killed in the US by other black people. About 250 were shot and killed by the police, in cases where the police self-admitted to killing them. This does not include the non-shooting deaths, either those that occur during an arrest, or while in custody.

Even if it were only 250/2570, that's still only about 1 order of magnitude.

You may be getting downvoted because of your false equivalences and your incorrect statistics, not because of your "objectivity."

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