July 8, 201610 yr Author Suspects reported to have been wearing bullet proof vests and camouflage along with masks. This sounds very premeditated. I've seen about 10 different things reported so I'd hold off on that at this point. Facts are optional with the media these days.
July 8, 201610 yr In 2014 there were 11,200,000 arrests made. The same year 1100 people were killed by police. Thats less than .001%. And that's based only on the number of arrests and not total number of police interactions. Id say you could quadruple the number and it still would not be the total number of police interactions with the public. Which means you are probably more likely to be struck by lightning than your are to be killed by police.
July 8, 201610 yr And per capita, an officer is far more likely to be killed by a black male than a white or Hispanic. That argument holds exactly zero water. Being an officer is 100% the officer's choice. Being a black male is 0% the black male's choice.
July 8, 201610 yr Video from one of the peaceful protestors. Twitter Kind of ironic that the police they were protesting were probably putting themselves in harms way to protect protestors.
July 8, 201610 yr That argument holds exactly zero water. Being an officer is 100% the officer's choice. Being a black male is 0% the black male's choice. You are missing the point. Violent crime, for some reason, is more commonly committed by blacks. "The Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the population in these counties. "Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers’ own risk of using lethal force," writes MacDonald. MacDonald also pointed out in her Hillsdale speech that blacks "commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime" in New York City, even though they consist of 23 percent of the city's population."
July 8, 201610 yr Kind of ironic that the police they were protesting were probably putting themselves in harms way to protect protestors. Indeed
July 8, 201610 yr That argument holds exactly zero water. Being an officer is 100% the officer's choice. Being a black male is 0% the black male's choice.I'm not even sure what point your trying to make.
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