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Mountain Goat
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14 Apr 2021, 1:28 pm

Do the police in America only shoot black men? If not, then what has this to do with racism?


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14 Apr 2021, 1:30 pm

Yes, white people also end up victims of police violence. That doesn't mean some other communities don't face disproportionate rates of violence from police, even when they're 100% compliant.


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17 Apr 2021, 11:24 pm

I'm sure there would be protests if white men were regularly being shot & killed by black police officers while they were being 100% compliant. Look at the way some white supremacists protested the removal of confederate symbols. I'm a white man & I would be terrified for my life to be anywhere near a protest. Police firing teargas & rubber bullets at peaceful protestors, & protestors rioting out of retaliation, & then the gun right activist openly carrying assault weapons & someone even openly carrying a rocket launcher. I have no clue why Americans LOVE war soooo much. We're frighting wars in a bunch of overseas countries but that is just NOT enough, we have to go to war within our own country as well. The rest of the world would be a hell of a lot better off if us Americans would wipe out our own d@mn country & people.


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17 Apr 2021, 11:37 pm

The one case involving a black police officer shooting a white woman he was charged with murder faster than you can say "double standard".
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/07/us/m ... -noor.html

Of course he deserved jail...but....he was (not surprisingly) not protected by his colleagues or by the code (a white officer would have been transferred). No blue line rednecks like Kyle Rittenhouse came to protest for him.