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In reply to the discussion: VIDEO SHOWS POLICE OFFICER PUNCHING WOMAN IN HEAD ON NEW JERSEY BEACH [View all]BumRushDaShow
(168,911 posts)51. In response to your feigned outrage
LOL, really?
You had and have zero idea what ethnicity I am. For all you know, I'm green with purple polka dots. Like that old joke says, on the Internet, no one knows you're a dog. The fact that you assume I'm white because I disagree with you tells me all I need to know about you.
You had and have zero idea what ethnicity I am. For all you know, I'm green with purple polka dots. Like that old joke says, on the Internet, no one knows you're a dog. The fact that you assume I'm white because I disagree with you tells me all I need to know about you.
The below are some facts. Not "scenarios" in a "study" where you "simulate" some situation and record the result. I.e., trying to report what LEO may or may not do with no actual human in front of them to shoot but what they actually DID when confronting an actual living breathing individual or individuals.
These are FACTS (actual "data" of what has transpired, with the main limitation being it is missing police-generated homicides that were eventually found to NOT be "justifiable" and were thus not included in the FBI's database because there were internal investigations involved, meaning the final FBI minority kill stats are most likely even higher) -
The victims: overwhelmingly male, heavily young, disproportionately black
The justifiable homicide victims of 2012 were overwhelmingly male the FBI's records included 11 women and 415 men. They were also, as are most people that interact with the criminal justice system, disproportionately black. Black Americans make up 13 percent of the US population, but the FBI's data shows that 32 percent of the felons killed by officers in 2012 where black. Fifty-two percent were white, and 12 percent were Hispanic.
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One reason the FBI's data is incomplete, of course, is that not all killings by police are "justifiable" even under the FBI's loose definition, which includes any death of someone who'd committed a felony. That said, experts believe that local police departments tend to write up reports for justifiable homicides immediately after the incident, and submit those every month they don't wait for a formal officer-involved shooting investigation to determine whether the victim was really committing a felony or not. In the meantime, the FBI trusts the agency when it says the homicide victim was a felon. So there may be homicides in the FBI's data for justifiable homicides that turned out not to be.
https://www.vox.com/cards/police-brutality-shootings-us/us-police-racism
https://www.vox.com/2014/8/21/6051043/how-many-people-killed-police-statistics-homicide-official-black
Here are even more recent "facts" -
Police Killed More Than 1,100 People This Year and a Quarter of Them Were Black
By Josh Saul On 12/29/17 at 12:24 PM
Police in the U.S. killed 1,129 people so far in 2017, and a quarter of those killed were blackeven though they comprise just 13 percent of the population, according to a new report.
In addition to being 25 percent of the victims, black people are also three times as likely to be killed by police as white people, according to the report, Mapping Police Violence, which was released Thursday.
Today is an important day to remind you that police violence is far from over, tweeted one of the reports creators, Brittany Packnett.
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/reports/
http://www.newsweek.com/police-shootings-killings-us-unarmed-black-reform-michael-brown-764787
By Josh Saul On 12/29/17 at 12:24 PM
Police in the U.S. killed 1,129 people so far in 2017, and a quarter of those killed were blackeven though they comprise just 13 percent of the population, according to a new report.
In addition to being 25 percent of the victims, black people are also three times as likely to be killed by police as white people, according to the report, Mapping Police Violence, which was released Thursday.
Today is an important day to remind you that police violence is far from over, tweeted one of the reports creators, Brittany Packnett.
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/reports/
http://www.newsweek.com/police-shootings-killings-us-unarmed-black-reform-michael-brown-764787
The above are the "facts of what WAS done", not the "possibilities of what might or might not be done".
Facts don't care how much melanin is in your skin. You trot out this "whitesplainin" claptrap because it's all you've got. I put your nonsense to bed with facts so all you can do is resort to ad hominem.
Your knee-jerk and angry nonsense fits the old saying - "When you throw a rock in a pig pen the one that squeals is the one that got hit" and that squealing is quite loud.
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VIDEO SHOWS POLICE OFFICER PUNCHING WOMAN IN HEAD ON NEW JERSEY BEACH [View all]
Judi Lynn
May 2018
OP
My entire point is that these incidents are NOT common. They seem so because they're reported.
Jedi Guy
May 2018
#36
The self-aggrandizing compliment which accurately translates as "they agree with me"
LanternWaste
May 2018
#55
The man/woman with the badge & gun will NEVER walk away. Have to assert their AUTHORITY.
7962
May 2018
#28
"How many black people interacted with a cop on this same day and didn't get shot"
BumRushDaShow
May 2018
#31
I "latched onto" this "one thing" because the OP's article describes what took place THERE
BumRushDaShow
May 2018
#38
Philly is South Jersey's media market so it is now all over the news here
BumRushDaShow
May 2018
#22
That cop will get the idiot of the year medal. He should have walked away after she made
Vinca
May 2018
#23
This a case of an officer creating a crime out of a relatively innocent situation.
honest.abe
May 2018
#59