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I'm really waiting for some piece of white trash to get into one of these COPS-style police brutality cases, just to see what the reaction would be. My guess i

• tzs 12y ago
  You don't have to guess. While unarmed blacks have been killed by police at a disproportionate rate, in absolute numbers more unarmed white people are killed by police in the US. These are indeed largely ignored outside of local news, after perhaps one or two brief mentions nationally. What seems to generally happen then is that they are investigated, and the killing is found to be somewhere between clearly justified and criminal, so there are no criminal charges but a good chance of a successful civil suit for wrongful death. That will often get a brief mention in the national news. Another large group of deaths that doesn't get a lot of attention, in either the press or on the streets, are the ~20 mostly young blacks killed per day by homicide. While some of these are due to criminal gangs attacking other criminal gangs, many are innocent people killed by mistake. It's sad that they are largely overlooked.