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brooklyn13

04/23/22 10:13 AM

#410598 RE: Zorax #410556

Wait, running from a traffic stop does not warrant being shot in the back and executed. I mean the car has license plates and vin#s that can be used to trace the owners, so what the heck.

People might not be in line in Strarbucks, but one we know was executed in bed after a no knock warrant was exercised and one was shot in his own living room watching tv because a cop supposedly thought it was her own apartment. I'm pretty sure neither had guns drawn, nor did Erik Garner, choked to death for selling loose ciggies.

The stats are interesting, I'm not sure how to read them. In 2021, 1141 people were killed by police.
https://mappingpoliceviolence.org/

Ok, black people make up 13.4% of the US population
https://www.google.com/search?q=percentage+of+black+population+in+us&rlz=1C5CHFA_enUS708US709&oq=percentage+of+black+population+in+us&aqs=chrome..69i57.3955j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

And, in 2021, 139 black people were killed by police:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/

So, we see that 12% of all police murders were of black people, which is slightly less than their overall percentage of the population. On the other hand, it's more than half the number of white people killed by police, which does seem an unusually large percentage.