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I'm a BLM supporter. And think the police need massive reform. I'd love to see their unions busted up to boot.

But if we're going off statistics...

Black people are more likely to die or be injured from other black people more than they are by cops.

By, like, a lot.

this article showcases how impervious cops are to taking responsibility, especially against the poor and powerless.

But your comment of being more afraid of the cops over the crime in their own neighborhoods reeks of Americans being more scared of terrorism than heart disease.

>>loudti+(OP)
You can MOSTLY avoid being murdered by your fellow black people by not engaging in any fashion with criminal enterprises and not staying with a domestic partner who beats you.

People who live their lives in a fashion as they are extremely unlikely to be harmed still worry that cops will murder their children for no reason. People also fear uncontrollable danger more so than things that they feel they can control even if they are in fact doing a bad job of it.

>>loudti+(OP)
> Black people are more likely to die or be injured from other black people more than they are by cops.

> reeks of Americans being more scared of terrorism than heart disease

I'd like to point out it's not just any black people that are most likely to kill/injure others. There is a very small subset (likely less than 1%) of the population. In that way, being deathly afraid of other black people in the USA, being deathly afraid of police in the USA, and being deathly afraid of terrorists in the USA are all irrational (or at least disproportionate) fears.

That said, we don't tell people their fears of lightning are unfounded or disproportionate to furniture falling on them. Using pure statistics against a limbic system response isn't particularly useful. Your limbic system remains fearful, even if your cognitive brain knows the odds don't require that same level of fear.