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Originally Posted by LostOstrich
Is this true? I'm in the UK, and it's headline news here if a police officer fires his weapon, but is it really so common for US police to kill citizens that it's only noteworthy when they're black?
Well white people get taken alive even when they attack the cops in totally ambiguous ways, so it's hard to say.
What people tend to miss is that the stories that get traction aren't just "black person killed by cops" but "
unarmed black person killed by cops".
The transparent thing about the greatbravewhite's argument is that they really don't believe there's no racial bias at play here. It's that they believe the racial bias is 100% correct, because all they know of black people is a picture of the scary thug they've had painted for them by Fox News. Like maybe they've got enough humanity to think that the cops shouldn't be murdering people, but they sure understand because I mean have you seen a black person? They're so scary and it requires a lot of training to not shoot one.