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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGuess what? White people steal cop's tasers, run from them, even shoot too. But they are still alive
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wryter2000
(46,040 posts)He had a high-powered rifle and had just killed a lot of people. Everyone's life WAS in danger from him.
You just don't hear this happening to white people. Period.
mcar
(42,309 posts)Tom Rinaldo
(22,912 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)Today I am just a ball of anger.
mcar
(42,309 posts)And I'm an old white woman.
Alex4Martinez
(2,193 posts)18-year-old Matthew Bernard from Keeling, Virginia, was arrested on three counts of first-degree murder this week, according to the Pittsylvania County Sheriff's Office.
mcar
(42,309 posts)Makes perfect sense to not shoot the murderer.
madinmaryland
(64,931 posts)treestar
(82,383 posts)I don't know. I'd have to look at all those and all shootings.
I had been looking for statistics rather than doing this kind of thing. It can always be shot down as anecdotal.
There are some stats I'm looking at. One set that is very tough to understand.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/06/11/opinion/statistical-paradox-police-killings/
but also
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-myth-of-systemic-police-racism-11591119883
You can find white people who were shot
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shooting_of_Zachary_Hammond
Dueling videos isn't real proof.
Tipperary
(6,930 posts)tulipsandroses
(5,124 posts)Based on those studies - he says we should be shooting blacks 24% more. - but systemic racism does not exist. Right.