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In reply to the discussion: White cops murder blacks=blacks are bad; Black man kills cops=race war [View all]RBInMaine
(13,570 posts)and a deliberate ambush of police officers. If a cop misperceives a threat level and uses force when objectively he or she shouldn't have in a police encounter, that is very different from intentionally ambushing police officers. In most of these police shootings, it is about them misperceiving threat levels and going to fast to deadly force, but I'm sure most didn't go to work that day intending to kill anyone of any race. Cops aren't out there deliberately hunting people like these ambushers are. Let's be fair. The dynamics and circumstances of the two situations are completely different.
I do completely agree that the bad actions of those black people who ambushed those cops shouldn't be an attack against all black people, and this should not be called a race war. That is race baiting.