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1. No, thank you. Racist intent is irrelevant. It is a fact that the prison system has incarcerated a significantly higher percentage of the population since the passing of the Civil Rights Act. This is true regardless of racist intent. It is a fact that this incarceration has disproportionately affected black people. This is also true regardless of racist intent. It is a fact that through the private system, prisons have a a financial incentive to use prisoners as forced labor. This also true regardless of racist intent. So even if there is no racist intent, there are still more black people in forced labour today than there were slaves in the antebellum South.
2. Exactly, they were firing into the house instead if aiming at anyone. They had absolutely no regard for the safety of the innocent occupants inside.
3. Perhaps we could skip to the part that justifies the killing of Ms. Breonna Taylor.
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Unthinking Majority wrote:...
"Read the stats I posted again: 14 unarmed black men were shot dead by cops in 2019. Of those 14, 5 of them were not attacking cops at the time, and of those 5, 2 were killed by white cops."
There were 13 men shot. Not 14. There were 14 unarmed black people.
I posted my data source as evidence, the WP did the work already. They're a left-leaning paper that starting tracking the stats after Michael Brown was shot (because he was attacking a cop BTW) i assume in order to keep police to account. There's even a black researcher on the article. It's up to you discredit their numbers.
Again, I cannot access the WP databse. Please present the evidence that 9 of these unarmed people were attacking the police.
Provide evidence that they don't keep track.
Spotlight on a blind spot
In December 2014, spurred by unrest in the wake of Ferguson, then-US president, Barack Obama, created a task force to investigate policing practices. The group issued a report five months later, highlighting a need for “expanded research and data collection” (see go.nature.com/2kqoddk). The data historically collected by the federal government on fatal shootings were sorely lacking. Almost two years later, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) responded with a pilot project to create an online national database of fatal and non-fatal use of force by law-enforcement officers. The FBI director at the time, James Comey, called the lack of comprehensive national data “unacceptable” and “embarrassing”.
Full data collection started this year. But outsiders had already begun to gather the data in the interests of informing the public. The database considered to be the most complete is maintained by The Washington Post. In 2015, the newspaper began collecting information on fatal shootings from local news reports, public records and social media. Its records indicate that police officers shoot and kill around 1,000 civilians each year — about twice the number previously counted by the FBI.
Recognizing that ‘lethal force’ does not always involve a gun and doesn’t always result in death, two other media organizations expanded on this approach. In 2015 and 2016, UK newspaper The Guardian combined its original reporting with crowdsourced information to record all fatal encounters with the police in the United States, and found around 1,100 civilian deaths per year. Online news site VICE News obtained data on both fatal and non-fatal shootings from the country’s 50 largest local police departments, finding that for every person shot and killed between 2010 and 2016, officers shot at two more people who survived. Extrapolating from that, the actual number of civilians shot by the police each year is likely to be upwards of 3,000.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02601-9So we see that prior to this year, there was no systematic data collection of police killings and/or shootings.
Unthinking Majority wrote:
"According to a release Monday from the National Nuclear Security Administration, Graves had a “cylindrical object in hand” when he was shot. No object or weapon was mentioned in the sheriff’s office’s Wednesday release. Sheriff’s office spokesman David Boruchowitz said in an email Wednesday evening that information about whether Graves had a weapon is “not being released right now.” After Graves got out of the car, he didn’t comply with the officers’ commands and “continued to advance on the officers,” Wehrly said.
https://pvtimes.com/news/nye-sheriff-wehrly-provides-update-on-fatal-shooting-at-nevada-security-site-66538/
So Graves allegedly had an object in his hand and continued to advance on the cop and wouldn't comply when told to stop advancing. If I did that I'd expect to be shot. So he doesn't count. I couldn't find out more about the case later on.
So you have no idea if Mr. Graves had a weapon. I guess you are defining “unarmed” as “visibly and obviously not having anything at all in their hands or reaching for anything at all at any time during the process, even if the object may or may not be a weapon”.
He probably had a can of some beverage in his hand.
Is Elijah McClain considered to be “armed” because he supposedly reached for a gun, or does he count as one of the nine who “attacked” the police? Or is he one of the two who were shot by white police while neither armed nor attacking?
I assume that Atatiana Jefferson is one of the two unarmed people who was not attacking when shot to death by a white cop.
D'Ettrick Griffin was killed while he stole the unmarked car of an off-duty officer. The database only tracks cops who kill while in the line of duty.
So the numbers you provided are inaccurate.
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