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1. stcred+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-06-02 05:03:04
Well shit it isn't, it results every year in people being murdered in cold blood, nobody being arrested for it despite the perpetrators being known

After the George Floyd incident, everyone was in agreement that this should stop. What's happening with the violence and the vandalism is just muddying the waters. It's almost as if the purpose isn't to make things better, but to foment a race war to destabilize the USA.

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2. vertex+A1[view] [source] 2020-06-02 05:21:36
>>stcred+(OP)
> After the George Floyd incident, everyone was in agreement that this should stop.

No, they really weren't - or at least not in any way that might lead to actionable results, like building systems that do not give cops the power to murder people without accountability. The same as all the other times the police have murdered people. It's not like this is a new thing that people are just waking up to.

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3. stcred+b3[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-02 05:35:59
>>vertex+A1
No, they really weren't - or at least not in any way that might lead to actionable results

Can you substantiate that, or is it just your opinion? You can justify the imposition of your opinion on everyone? (Through violent intimidation?)

like building systems that do not give cops the power to murder people without accountability

This has happened, incrementally. Can you design a system, ground-up that will work as well as the current one? I suspect that's far more likely than iterating on the current one. That's also an opinion.

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4. vertex+o8[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-02 06:22:30
>>stcred+b3
> This has happened, incrementally.

Do you have statistics that show that? Are more cops charged and imprisoned after murdering unarmed people every year, or does the number of unarmed murdered people go down, at all? People who die mysteriously in custody?

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5. Joeri+qy[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-02 11:12:20
>>vertex+o8
“Fatal police shootings of unarmed people have significantly declined, experts say”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/fatal-police-s...

However, the overall trend in police killings is flat.

https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/nationaltrends

Interestingly:

“White Police Officers Are Not More Likely To Shoot Minority Suspects”

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/26/745731839/new-study-says-whit...

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6. nolson+Nz[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-02 11:22:38
>>Joeri+qy
And you dont need to be black to get suffocated by police https://www.dallasnews.com/news/investigations/2019/07/31/yo...
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7. TeaDru+EC[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-06-02 11:52:52
>>Joeri+qy
According to from what I understand fatal police shootings have declined in dense cities but have increased everywhere else.
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