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canikatthedisco t1_j6iprms wrote

Could work. Reagan signed gun control legislation in the 80's because groups like the black panthers started carrying.

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Sol-eks OP t1_j6iqq9z wrote

That’s what I immediately thought of. Kinda sucks it got to this point though. RIP Tyre

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[deleted] t1_j6issog wrote

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dengar_hennessy t1_j6j3boo wrote

Do you think that white people aren't shot by police?

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bassslappin t1_j6jeq6o wrote

All the time

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dengar_hennessy t1_j6jo8wz wrote

Seriously. I don't know the actual ratios but I think technically more white people are killed by police every year but with the proportion to population is higher percentage of blacks. Something like that. I don't know.

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Safe2BeFree t1_j6jqi0u wrote

2022 police killing numbers:

Total 1096

Black 225

White 389

Total killings when the victim was unarmed 27

Unarmed blacks 7

Unarmed whites 9

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RailAurai t1_j6jlh7i wrote

White people are getting shot, the news media just doesn't find it interesting enough to report on.

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dirkdiggler2011 t1_j6ju00t wrote

Nor do they report black on black murder which is highly prevalent. There is a reason Chicago is called "Chi-raq".

People are only interested if one color kills the other.

The recent emphasis on using "blue" as a universal donor for outrage has been lovingly cultivated by the media as an angry viewer keeps watching.

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Stryker2279 t1_j6itx5v wrote

Yes, because God forbid minorities have the ability to defend themselves in the face of systemic recism.

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MantiSigma t1_j6j5q3g wrote

The biggest joke is, that exactly that is what the second amendment is actually about.

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Fluid_Amphibian3860 t1_j6j8r9u wrote

Its about poverty. Poor people get shot by cops Black poor people, White poor people etc.. The race narrative is welcomed because it keeps people divided. Poor people need to unite.

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Sloloem t1_j6k6pco wrote

I looked at a lot of numbers from various watchdog groups right after the huge push in the wake of George Floyd's murder and the interesting takeaway was that encounters with the police end in murder at pretty much the same rate regardless of the races of either the officers or victims. When controlling for population demographics it was more likely for a black or hispanic person to have that encounter than others, but once the cop was targeting you it was about even odds.

The real stark contrast was when you drew the lines by income. If you were sufficiently wealthy your odds of being hurt or killed in an encounter with a police officer regardless of anyone's race dropped to effectively 0 while if you were poor (or the police thought you were) you were in serious trouble.

Not saying this is a good way to look at the data but if you don't break anything down at all and just look at all police shootings equally the least likely kind of person to be on that list is a rich asian lady while the most likely victim is actually a dog...because police kill roughly 10x more pets than people every year.

It's about class, yes, but fuck me the scared little babies popping off rounds at dog parks because wagging tails threaten them need to learn some goddamned discipline and de-escalation tactics.

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