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In reply to the discussion: Chris Cuomo: Police reform won't happen until 'white people's kids start getting killed' [View all]Caliman73
(11,694 posts)He should have said that if middle class White kids were being killed at the same proportion as young Black people, there would be such an outcry, that changes in policing would be much more likely.
I do think that there is validity to what you are saying regarding race and authoritarianism, however, there is a far greater assumption that Black people are dangerous, and are asking for what they get, than White kids. The statistics show that Black kids are 3 to 6 times more likely to be killed by police. That is a huge number when you consider what that would mean. Someone posted that 457 White people were killed by police in 2020, a slow year because of the pandemic. If you take that and put it through the multiplier for likelihood for Black kids, that would be between 1,371 and 2,742 White people dying at the hands of police.
Police certainly get the benefit of the doubt in many cases, but if your victims start coming from more affluent backgrounds with more visibility, then the issue would have more legs.