Yet Another Shooting Of A Black Person, But This Time By A Black Policeman, What Now?

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3801367/One-person-died-gunshot-wound-violent-protests-Charlotte-fatal-police-shooting-disabled-black-man-enter-second-night.html

[Orderlimit]

Odd, black cop black deceased USA news does not appear to be attracting the usual AB conspiracy theorist.

[fiction-factory]

I think the topic has been exhausted on the other thread, orderlimit. I'm not sure what the conspiracy theory might be. There is concern that in a couple of recent cases it doesn't look as if the person shot was a particular threat, particularly the one where a social worker or similar was shot. There was a theory that blacks should expect to have a higher chance of being shot because blacks are more likely than whites to be dangerous criminals so police are more likely to be twitchy.

[DJHawkes]

African American adult males make up 6.5% of US citizens and are responsible or perpetrators of over 50% of all crime in the US so step one would be for those 6.5% to all start learning that they are the problem someone else has created and get Trump in charge to give them some kind of future that their African-American president has denied them through oppression.

[Zacs-Master]

Care to back those figures up with statistics DJH?

[vetuste_ennemi]

//Care to back those figures up with statistics//

Yes. Try table in this document: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/offenses-known-to-law-enforcement/expanded/expanded-homicide-data .

Management summary (if you can't be bothered to look at the official stats): most black lives ended prematurely have been cut short by other blacks (a very small percentage of whom might be black cops).

[vetuste_ennemi]

Table 6.

[Zacs-Master]

V_E table six is for murders. DJH is claiming that African Americans are responsible for 50% of all crime in the US.

[Togo]

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/table-43

Some people cant be bothered to look Table. 43 gives the crime breakdown by ethnic group and it is not a huge mental challenge( for some) to compare the table with US population breakdown. All the information required to look for yourselves is provided in V E's link. It only took me 7 minutes to find the relevant table

[naomi24]

It should be borne in mind that black people account for only 13% of the total population. It doesn’t take much to work out that crime rates among the black population are proportionally far higher than in any other group.

[RandyMarsh]

The stats are right and are obviously a major factor behind the perception of black people by law enforcement in the US but they do not justify or excuse every instance of the police shooting a citizen.

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// AOG

What now?

What do you mean? ///

I would have thought that would be obvious, this is no longer the usual 'white cops are against black people' it is in this case 'black cops are against black people' as well.

So perhaps this shows that all cops no matter of of what colour are against law breakers no matter what colour they may well be?

[anotheoldgit]

RandyMarsh

/// but they do not justify or excuse every instance of the police shooting a citizen. ///

No you are of course right, no one should be shot out of hand, and I do believe that they are not.

The trouble seems to be that there are some especially blacks who are not prepared to give in easily.

Look at those who resist arrest so forcibly that it takes a number of police officer to hold them down, and then if they die of a heart attack in the possess, its the cops fault once again.

Also take their resistance in this country to being stopped and searched, do they not realise that in the end, it could after all save their lives, I refer to the number of black on black stabbings that take place.