Posted on 08/10/2015 7:25:13 AM PDT by bob_denard
A year ago today, a white police officer shot and killed a black teenager in a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri, catalyzing a firestorm of protests and re-animating national conversations on issues of race, policing, and violence in the US.
Michael Brown's bleeding corpse was subsequently left facedown in the middle of the road for four hours on the afternoon on August 9, 2014 — exposed to the midday summer sun and eyes of residents, a few of whom snapped cellphone images that would eventually spread across social media, the nation, and the world. At Brown's funeral, two weeks later, the Reverend Al Sharpton remarked that the 19-year-old was left laying in Canfield drive like his "life… didn't matter" — an observation that protesters set out to disprove when they took to the streets en masse over several months to declare that Brown's and all "black lives matter."
The protests, die-ins, and marches proceeded throughout the winter and into what some have called a "Black Spring" — a new civil rights movement led by a by a social media-wielding youth contingent. Occasionally, as more incidences of police killings came to light, the actions broke out in violence in Ferguson and in Baltimore, where 25-year-old Freddie Gray's spine was crushed while in police custody in April.
Since then, the rallies for justice have not abated, and neither have the number of deaths at the hands of police. At least 1,083 Americans have been killed by cop since August 9, 2014, according to comprehensive research and data collected by VICE News — an average of nearly three people a day.
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“...A year ago today, a white police officer shot and killed a black teenager...”
Let’s add a bit of TRUTH to that....a black teenager who was TRYING TO TAKE THE POLICEMAN”S GUN BY REACHING IN HIS CAR....”
Now, matches what happened a bit better.
I am not buying the figure of over 1,000 in one year. That would be 19 per week. Seems like we would hear more about it, unless 18 per week are white.
So, less than .001% of arrests wind up as officer involved killings. That’s a darned good percentage, especially considering the attitude of a certain segment of the population toward police.
Oh, those dastardly police.
Going out with guns drawn, waiting for innocent blacks who were just trying to buy a soda for their children whilst reading Winnie the Pooh books to them, only to have the pigs shoot them down in cold blood while yelling racist chants.
NOT!
The left lives for this. communism strives to increase class envy and looks for class struggle, leading ultimately to the ‘oppressed’ class rising up to overthrow the ‘oppressors’.
#factsdontmatter
"Americans", or residents i.e. criminal aliens, etc.? A breakdown would be very interesting.
That’s a good weekend’s work for Planned Parenthood...
Maybe the research company could provide the names, dates and location of those 1,053 police related shootings so we can verify.
According to FBI statistics, you are correct. Yearly average 2009-2013 is 420, and I see no reason why this year would be different.
I have an Idea, when a cop say $hit all you have to say is what color.
I have to question those numbers. I’ll bet at least half of them were illegal aliens. BS.
Some of them are.
Vast majority are not.
And a link to your source is where?
That’s just an average year in Chicago.
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