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that's typically the reaction when an unarmed black/minority person is shot and killed by L.E....cop was justified in taking the azzwhole out, even if the circumstances may not have warranted deadly force...

Return to forum without posting.

I can only think of one case similar to this one where the victim was black... That was the tragic shooting death of Corey Jones...

The officer in that case was of Pakistani decent... He was sentenced to 25 years for manslaughter...

cop shoulda put on some white face...he'da walked...

No way man... People ******* hate mimes... 🤐

Creepy bastards.

And you can't pick the aliens out for the makeup. **** Venusians will kill us all. [ram27bat]

You really can't believe the drivel you post.

This right here is why I haven't even looked at this forum in a while.

Gotta keep racism alive... Otherwise there won't be reparations and stuff... 😟

I would be interested in knowing the percentages of white vs. black officer conviction rates involved with job related shootings (not interested enough to look). If the numbers pointed a certain way then I imagine many in the news media would’ve already had a field day with it. My uneducated guess would be that conviction rates are similar between all police (hardly ever).

Even if it's drivel, even if he does believe it - just like any opinion I don't agree with - i think it's safer and healthier having it discussed in the public square than having it discussed in an echo chamber, or worse yet, having it not discussed at all...

think white face woulda fooled the judge and the jury???

c'mon...

throwing humor at a sensitive social issue is a long and proud tradition in the US, especially among oppressed minorities.....it sure beats crying, griping ....or worse....


it's just that I don't have the comedic skills of say...Gov. Northam...

here're some numbers from 2017 to the present...minorities killed by police are higher than their proportions of the US population...

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/ 

My comment was more about the conviction rates (or lack thereof) of police officers in regards to their race, e.g., do black cops get convicted at higher rates than white cops?

I’m not really surprised by those numbers but wonder if correlation actually equals causation in this particular phenomenon, or are there some other confounding variables at play?

I do not doubt the existence of racism in America, but is it really so prevalent within our law enforcement culture that it’s causing police to shoot minorities at higher percentages? I certainly haven’t seen any definitive evidence that leads me to believe in this hypothesis (admittedly, I haven’t really looked very closely).

My guess would be that a person’s socioeconomic status, age, and where they live plays a much larger role in the chances of getting shot by the police than the color of their skin does.

Mister, you can take your logic and your reason and march right the hell outta here...

Oppressed minorities... Who in this country, today, is oppressed?

Oooh, Oooh, I know!!

Nobody.

Murder convictions of police officers are extremely rare, particularly for on-duty use of force killings...doubt if the numbers, which are statistically insignificant, would provide any meaningful clues about racial disparity among police officers in the US criminal justice system...

we tend to give a wide amount of latitude to our police officers and are very reluctant to question their decision-making under extreme circumstances often involving real threats to their own safety