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It's true that more white people are killed by police, but per capita more black people are killed. But any police officer getting off with no time after killing an innocent, unarmed, nonthreatening person is a travesty.This is mostly false narrative. Did you know a white person interacting with police is more likely to be killed than a person of color in the same circumstances? That's a verifiable fact, based on FBI statistics and ferreted out by a major media outlet.
Now THAT is a false narrative. Over 7,000 anti-racism protests have occurred since the killing of George Floyd. The vast majority have been peaceful, with a lot of the violence being instigated by counter-protesters. Very few of the protests involved property damage or vandalism, and much of that has been linked to opportunistic looters and not protesters. Generalizing the BLM protests as "violent riots" based on the outliers is akin to using the events that happened in Charlotesville as an excuse to refer to all conservatives as violent Neo-Nazis.BLM has done billions of dollars of damage looting and rioting for months.
A violent mob breaks into the US Capitol building, commits vandalism and murders, threatens the lives of members of US Congress and the Vice-President, interrupts the functioning of the government, and you want to dismiss it as "a few idiots?" Open your eyes man, the actions of the January 6th DC rioters bordered on treason.A few idiots run through some mostly ceremonial buildings for a couple hours and they are the big threat. Right
Read what I wrote. Here's the more detailed "how the world works in reality" explanation.It's true that more white people are killed by police, but per capita more black people are killed.
I read what you wrote. You're filtering your argument with "in the same circumstances," which ignores the reality that black people and white people rarely face the same circumstances.Read what I wrote. Here's the more detailed "how the world works in reality" explanation.
There is more but you get the idea - all this is verifiable statistical fact.
- A white person interacting with police is more likely to be killed than a person of color in the same circumstances.
- Police interact with people based primarily on reported crimes, and secondarily observed crimes.
- Black people are more likely to be reported as engaged in criminal activity than white people, pro rata.
- In reported crimes, the race of the victim and the alleged offender are overwhelmingly likely to be the same.
So, at the core of your complaint, is the fact that black people are more likely, per-capita to report a crime. If you think that's a problem, go fix it, but they're not dropping a dime because police officers are racists.
Obviously for a person to be killed by an officer, they must be interacting with the officer. When interacting with an officer, white men are the demographic most likely to be killed. That's just a fact, borne out by the FBI data.I read what you wrote. You're filtering your argument with "in the same circumstances," which ignores the reality that black people and white people rarely face the same circumstances.
I started with the internet in the mid '80's that is when I learned the term ISP. I was wildly happy just to get on a message board hosted by the local library (Lawton, Oklahoma) using dial-up a 300 baud modem and a Commodore 64. It went downhill from there, You are correct, I don't understand networks. I never had a Twitter account to drop, but I do not like what's going on.Most people don't understand how computer networks operate
We can all arm ourselves with lies, damn lies, and statistics. Here are a few statistics: black civilians are more likely to suffer mistreatment from police when not resisting than whites. Black drivers are more likely to be pulled over for no cause than whites. Black people are more likely to encounter police in general than white people. I'm sure we could throw statistics back and forth for days. Statistics can tell what, but rarely reveal why, and the devil is in the details.Obviously for a person to be killed by an officer, they must be interacting with the officer. When interacting with an officer, white men are the demographic most likely to be killed. That's just a fact, borne out by the FBI data.
The rest of the chain of events is largely out of officers hands.
If you want to have a nice flood of statistics on it, start a thread, make a falsifiable claim, and we'll go.
I started with a few local BBS's, and then a bit later Compuserve, all in the 80's, which was before the internet was really a thing for non government or educational use I believe. Certainly pre-WWW in those days. Had to know your protocols!I started with the internet in the mid '80's that is when I learned the term ISP.
The 2600 days... that was the wild west.I started with a few local BBS's, and then a bit later Compuserve, all in the 80's, which was before the internet was really a thing for non government or educational use I believe. Certainly pre-WWW in those days. Had to know your protocols!
Then Compuserve, BiX, (shudder) AoL, and the rest started to bridge to the internet. Then, the next thing you know, ... Mosaic.
Welcome to the internet.We are being actively monitored/infiltrated on this 'site now.
I started with the internet in the mid '80's that is when I learned the term ISP. I was wildly happy just to get on a message board hosted by the local library (Lawton, Oklahoma) using dial-up a 300 baud modem and a Commodore 64. It went downhill from there, You are correct, I don't understand networks. I never had a Twitter account to drop, but I do not like what's going on.
Nice! Most expensive hard drive I ever bought was a refurbed 18GB Quantum SCSI drive for $320. Later I spent $100 on some used Seagate Elite full height drives. 9lbs a piece. Had three in my tower at one point in an array. That was a heavy PC!I am old school and ran a FidoNet Bulletin Board back in 1986. I had a 1200 baud modem at that time. I had an IBM-XT clone with 640k on the motherboard and had the same 8088 clock speed as the original IBM-XT system.
I majored in Computer Science so I had to shutdown my BBS since hard drive space was limited back then. I had a Seagate ST225 hard drive that had 20mb of space and me cost me over $550. The hard drive had its own controller card as well. I had to do a low level format first before doing a DOS format.
I had a summer job delivering water beds and used most of that money to buy that hard drive.
A violent mob breaks into the US Capitol building, commits vandalism and murders, threatens the lives of members of US Congress and the Vice-President, interrupts the functioning of the government, and you want to dismiss it as "a few idiots?" Open your eyes man, the actions of the January 6th DC rioters bordered on treason.
In both the BLM and MAGA protests, the majority of the protesters were peaceful. But while property damage is bad, a physical assault on the heart of American democracy is an abomination.
My first HD was a 49mb (yes mb) SCSI drive for my Amiga 2000. Later I wanted to back things up so I got a 40mb (...) removable platter HD that fit into the external 5.25 bay. A SCSI scanner, which is still in the box gathering dust. A SCSI ZipDrive came later.Most expensive hard drive I ever bought was a refurbed 18GB Quantum SCSI drive for $320.