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> Black and Hispanic police are as likely or more likely to kill people of color as white officers If that's true, it suggests the racism problem is more serio
by jlokier 6y ago
> Black and Hispanic police are as likely or more likely to kill people of color as white officers
If that's true, it suggests the racism problem is more serious than we thought; that police of all colors may be endemically racist as a group; that it's not just mainly white police.
That said, we don't see black-on-black murders of innocent people so much. This might be due the symbolism of white-on-black murders in broad daylight with onlookers. Or it might not. Regardless, it's all racism if innocent black folks are getting murdered more often.
- stormdennis 6y ago>That said, we don't see black-on-black murders of innocent people so much. Really? The murder rate inside the black community is massively higher than within any other community in America. Also black people murder more white people than vice versa. If you take account of the different community sizes the disparity becomes even more extreme. If this is coming as news to you I don't know where you've been all your life.
- jlokier 6y agoSorry, I mis-wrote that due to an editing mistake, and it's too late to edit the comment now. What I meant to write was we don't see black-on-black police murders of innocent people hitting the big news and causing mass demonstations so much.
- stormdennis 6y agoYou're right we don't see them hitting the news and causing mass demonstrations. We also never have mass demonstrations when a black person kills a white person. And yet interestingly, far more white people are killed by black people than vice versa.