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In reply to the discussion: I fully understand that this post is likely to draw very intense personal criticism but, at my age, [View all]StarfishSaver
(18,486 posts)If it were, white people would be getting shot and killed in the same proportions as Black people.
The problem is that too many white cops - just like too many white people in general - see Black people, especially males, as more dangerous and threatening and less worthy of respect and concern than people who look like them.
Therefore, some cops see a frightened, wary black man trying to get back into his car or running away from them or holding his hands up in the air as an imminent threat needing to be tased, shot or otherwise neutralizes when they do not see similarly and even worse behaving white people in the same way.
You can't train that out of people. We need to get people who think like that out of jobs where they have the power to make life and death decisions over people a d have the firepower to take their lives. And people need to stop making excuses for them.