I don't understand how using tear gas on violent rioters is "police brutality"

[CamoDeafie]

1. Blacks make up 12.7% of the US population.

2. Whites (including white hispanics ) makes up for 72% of the US population.

Yes, a black person is more likely to be arrested, shot, killed, or otherwise harmed by police, based on percentages.. but by the numbers, a high number of whites(including white hispanics, which is probably trending upwards) also get arrested, shot, killed, and otherwise harmed by police... for each segment of the population, the chances are quite high for arrests, deaths and so forth...

 

[DivCurlGrad72]

Edit: on second thought, it's not worth getting into this conversation, at least online.

 

[Hueco]

What you're saying is not true. In 2019 alone, Black people were more than 2.5x more likely to be killed by police than white folks. They were also 1.5x more likely to be unarmed when police kill them.

Why would you lie to your son and the people of this forum about the murder rates of black people by police?

Why would you go on a gun forum and trash your son behind his back?

Isn't raising a boy in a good conservative home about leading by example?

Proverbs 22:6 — Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it.

To add onto your post, I didn't do a ton of googling...mostly just one search...and this was the number two listing so, I got lazy and stopped here.

Deaths Due to Use of Lethal Force by Law Enforcement: Findings From the National Violent Death Reporting System, 17 U.S. States, 2009–2012

Several high-profile cases in the U.S. have drawn public attention to the use of lethal force by law enforcement (LE), yet research on such fatalities is limited. Using data from a public health surveillance system, this study examined the characteristics ...

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov

From the data: Victims were majority white (52%) but disproportionately black (32%) with a fatality rate 2.8 times higher among blacks than whites.

 

[jr leadslinger]

with out links to back it up, it's just a opinion.

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Anybody who thinks this destruction Is due to George Floyd should see this Portland fallen soldiers memorial. First photo is in 2015. Other photos are feb 8-10, 2020, two months before George Floyd died.

 

[sobo]

Well, that's pretty telling...

 

[titsonritz]

Edit: on second thought, it's not worth getting into this conversation, at least online.

You're right, screw it.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Fallen Soldiers Monument ...
To live , to serve , to answer the call to arms...
Who will speak for the Fallen Soldiers...who will now tend to their wounded monument...?

To those who have defaced this monument....
I ask...How does desecrating this memorial further your cause...?
Those men on that monument , did nothing to deserve your ire .
They do , however deserve to be remembered with honor and dignity.
Honor and dignity which is sadly lacking in your actions.
Andy

 

[titsonritz]

Fallen Soldiers Monument ...
To live , to serve , to answer the call to arms...
Who will speak for the Fallen Soldiers...who will now tend to their wounded monument...?

To those who have defaced this monument....
I ask...How does desecrating this memorial further your cause...
Those men on that monument , did nothing to deserve your ire .
They do , however deserve to be remembered with honor and dignity.
Honor and dignity which is sadly lacking in your actions.
Andy

Think they give a crap? Rhetorical question.

 

[Andy54Hawken]

Think they give a crap?

No...I know that they don't care.
But I do.
And at least folks know where I stand.

To see such things is very hurtful to me
Andy

 

[titsonritz]

No...
But I do.
And at least folks know where I stand.

To see such things is very hurtful to me
Andy

It is truly disgusting.

 

[HaveGun]

New Study Says White Police Officers Are Not More Likely To Shoot Minority Suspects

A new peer-reviewed study of fatal police shootings says that white officers are not more likely to shoot and kill minority suspects. Critics contend it doesn't address racial disparities by police.

www.npr.org

MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: Since the Ferguson protests of 2014, we've learned a lot more about fatal shootings by the police. News organizations started collecting their own data on shootings to make up for incomplete federal stats, and academics started building on that. Michigan State University psychologist Joseph Cesario is part of a group that looked at fatal shootings in 2015. They added in the race of the police, and then did a statistical analysis.

JOSEPH CESARIO: The race of a police officer did not predict the race of the citizen shot. In other words, black officers were just as likely to shoot black citizens as white officers were.

KASTE: Other studies have looked at this question, but this one comes closest to being a nationwide analysis. It's also getting extra attention because it's in a prestigious peer-reviewed journal, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. And that puzzles Philip Atiba Goff.

So if blacks are more likely to be shot than whites, statistically speaking, and the officers who did the shooting were just as likely to be black as they were white, then perhaps it's not the racist cops that are the problem. Perhaps it's the behavior and actions of those getting shot?

But that would mean that we should actually hold someone accountable for their actions, rather than scream racism at every opportunity. And that apparently is just not tolerated.

 

[ma96782]

I don't understand how using tear gas on violent rioters is "police brutality"

Yup....

Carry on.

Aloha, Mark

 

[titsonritz]

Problem solved...
Minneapolis City Council announces veto-proof push to disband police in George Floyd aftermath

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Problem solved...
Minneapolis City Council announces veto-proof push to disband police in George Floyd aftermath

I bet gun sales in Minneapolis just went up 1000%

 

[titsonritz]

I bet gun sales in Minneapolis just went up 1000%

You know it...

 

[ilikegunspdx]

Portland police chief resigns after 4 months on the job.

Portland officials vow ‘bold’, ‘meaningful’ police reforms after protests of George Floyd’s killing

Portland Police Chief Jami Resch announced she was stepping down as chief Monday and Mayor Ted Wheeler said he planned to unveil a “large list of reforms” he plans for the police bureau on Tuesday

www.oregonlive.com

 

[sobo]

Well, this oughta be fun to watch...

 

[Ura-Ki]

I can't say what I really want to here, would have to self ban!

Portland can't seem to keep a chief, not to hard to figure out why!

 

[sobo]

Portland police chief resigns after 4 months on the job.

Portland officials vow ‘bold’, ‘meaningful’ police reforms after protests of George Floyd’s killing

Portland Police Chief Jami Resch announced she was stepping down as chief Monday and Mayor Ted Wheeler said he planned to unveil a “large list of reforms” he plans for the police bureau on Tuesday

www.oregonlive.com

That snowflake Wheeler hung her out to dry from Day One. She's going to have a hard time finding another job...

Interviewer: And what did you accomplish while you were Police Chief at Portland for 4 months?
Ms. Resch: Well, nothing, really. I was told to stand around and watch while Antifa and other rioters burned down the city.