Posted on 06/04/2020 10:15:25 AM PDT by knighthawk
It bears no resemblance to reality — not in police forces, and not in America.
About twice as many white people as black people are killed by police. In fact, in about 75 percent of police shootings, the decedent is not black. Of course, that is not what you would grasp from consuming media.
Take the website statista.com, specifically its breathless focus on “Hate crime in the United States” — counterfactually insinuating that any shooting involving a black victim must be a “hate crime.” Here’s their big headline from Tuesday: “Black Americans 2.5X More Likely Than Whites to Be Killed By Police.”
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
I confess!
I’ve got whiteness!
Tomorrow, I’m going to go out and torture and kill 1000 Americans of African Descent.
Oh.
Wait.
No.
I’m going to mow the lawn.
Later
bkmk
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