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Originally Posted by braves2017
The problem you have, the only way your number looks big enough is when you compare it to white people in similar circumstances. Its like taking a sub-set of a sub-set, of a sub set then comparing two groups with in that last sub-set. You are mad at the discrepancies, I am too but when we look at it as a whole, its an extremely rare occurrence. It does warrant attention but to riot and burn **** down? Not for something that is relativity rare. These riots are nothing more than confirmation bias gone amok and you buy right into it. These riots are not a protest they are people who do not have ****ing clue. I'm not talking about protest but even that seems like a waste of time for something that rarely occurs but to each his own.
Do we ever want cops murdering people...no but to expect it to never happen is ridiculous. Do we ever want cops to be racist, no but to expect it to never happen is ridiculous. Do we ever want blacks to commit crimes that bring them into contact with cops, no but to expect it to never happen is ridiculous. Do we ever want black people to commit crimes and come into contact with a bad police man or a racist police man, no but to expect it to never happen is ridiculous.
I think many people to expect this stuff not to happen in a country with 330M people and that's ridiculous.
Who are you talking to? Your entire post is directed at a fictional person who said that rioting was appropriate.
You agree we don't want cops murdering people. That Black people are murdered by cops disproportionately. That that deserves attention and perhaps protest.
Even if it's just a few murders, it warrants protest, not because there aren't allowed to be a few bad apples, but because the bad apples are supported by the rest of the police, many of the politicians, and a lot of citizens. No matter what the bad apples do, they usually get a lot of support.
But, it's not just the murders. In a lot of cities there's a terrible relationship between the police and the communities in Black neighborhoods. In some cities, like Los Angeles, which have had some reform after protests and riots, relations have improved and the last time an unarmed Black person was shot here there wasn't a riot.
Regardless of the absolute number of Black people being murdered by police, the anger will subside when there's a reasonable expectation that such an incident will treated like a crime and when the average law abiding people in these communities are treated like citizens to be protected rather than suspects.