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In reply to the discussion: Elephant in Living Room: White Supremacists w/ Badges & Guns murdering black men [View all]madville
(7,410 posts)48. The statistics are interesting
If you run the DOJ numbers per interaction with the police a white person has a slightly higher statistical probability of being killed.
What waters that down is that black people have a higher rate of interactions with police but twice as many white people than black are killed by the police each year.
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Elephant in Living Room: White Supremacists w/ Badges & Guns murdering black men [View all]
99th_Monkey
May 2015
OP
How then do you explain the massively disproportionate killing of black males?
99th_Monkey
May 2015
#2
It's probably geographic. I doubt the white supremacy is coast-to-coast phenomenon.
Buzz Clik
May 2015
#3
When someone calls me "delusional", I expect documentation to prove the point.
Buzz Clik
May 2015
#36
I read research in '64 which showed similar results. CA Man displaces FL Man?
Eleanors38
May 2015
#26
"Near a thousand" doesn't explain the racism in law enforcement and the criminal justice system
gollygee
May 2015
#20
This is more of a problem of rich versus poor. Ironically those cops would have no employment
whereisjustice
May 2015
#8
I don't explain them away... black unemployment is double that of whites, black wealth in 2013
whereisjustice
May 2015
#11
Walter Mosely says race is important, but class is overriding in these shootings...
Eleanors38
May 2015
#31
Yes, there are a number of underlying causations for "out-of-control" Cops Murdering citizens
99th_Monkey
May 2015
#16
Come ON people! Everyone knows if you reported a burning cross in your yard,.....
Spitfire of ATJ
May 2015
#18
So the FBI is investigating and routinely bringing cases to the Justice Department? n/t
jtuck004
May 2015
#38
Here's what Southern Poverty Law Center has to say about supremacist groups and the military...
Dont call me Shirley
May 2015
#45