Forest Bueller_bf said:
cinque said:
Forest Bueller_bf said:

Now take into account what precipitates being killed by police.
1) Violent crime would be indicator #1.
2) Not cooperating with the police also contributes as we have seen 3 times recently.
Two of the incidents I do not believe the officer was in the right at all.
The guy in Atlanta who stole the tazer took off running and turned to shoot it at police, really what can you expect there. Folks on here pretending they would not react the same way are probably lying to themselves.
There will never be peace so long as black men can be murdered for not cooperating with police.
I won't disagree with that as it should be. White people are killed for the same reason, unfortunately the only ones that care are their family.
Although Black people represented 12 percent of the population in the states we studied, they made up 25 percent of the deaths in police shootings," Miller says.
By comparison, Miller says, white people represented 62 percent of the populationand made up 54 percent of the deaths in encounters with police.
Instead of approaching the study with a point of view to be proved or disproved, Miller and his fellow researchers set out on a fact-finding mission. They analyzed the two-year database of 603 firearm homicides by police. They tagged and coded the narratives to put each shooting into context, and then ran the detailed results through a computer programa meticulous process that took two years to complete.The study found that the racial disparity was even more pronounced in those cases in which the victims were unarmed and offered minimal to no threat to police.
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READ MORE"In those instances in which the victim appeared to pose a minimal-or-less threat to police, based on the data we had, Black people were three times as likely to be killed," Miller says. "That doesn't mean the police didn't feel threatened. But based on the reports that we were able to to look at, a very low level of threat was directed at the police. And in those specific cases, the numbers rose for Black people: They made up 36 percent of the deaths."
Miller adds that his study, which was released in March, was not an outlier on the issue of race in police shootings.
"Many other studies have shown that Black people are more likely to be killed per capita by law enforcement than are white people in the United States," Miller says. "That is not a disputed statistic."
Miller categorizes Trump's statement as a "misleading" attempt "to dismiss the question."
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