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v12vanquish t1_j9umxi6 wrote

Reply to comment by 9-11GaveMe5G in Fourth Circuit: Individuals Have a First Amendment Right to Livestream Their Own Traffic Stops by mepper

If you’re going to make jokes at least post data.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/585140/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-weapon-carried-2016/

27 unarmed people were shot in 2022.

More blacks died from almost everything else.

Edit: said 27 unarmed black when it was just people.

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crazy28 t1_j9uqs1c wrote

These numbers are reported by the police and we all know how much they lie. They will say a shooting victim was armed until there is video evidence that they weren't then shift the blame to incomplete information provided by someone else.

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v12vanquish t1_j9us5v7 wrote

So you’re making a claim with no sort of official statistic or third party accounting?

That sounds like statement of faith.

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crazy28 t1_j9uvenu wrote

https://www.citizen-times.com/story/news/local/2023/02/01/wnc-man-shot-cherokee-swat-team-out-of-hospital-sbi-investigating/69859982007/

Here is one example that happened last month with the initial police statement and video of the incident can be found on YouTube. I could find more for you if you want.

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v12vanquish t1_j9v0779 wrote

One example does not prove the statement that cops are out murdering black people and lying about it.

“More rigorous research into the question of whether police killings reflect racial bias is in its infancy, and it has been subject to intense debates over the appropriate methods. But existing studies are divided on the bias question. Many papers fail to find bias in lethal force, though one of the most careful studies in the literature—of an unnamed city with a high murder rate—does find that white cops discharge their guns several times as often as black cops when sent to 911 calls in heavily black neighborhoods.

Clearly, the most extreme narratives, in which police kill nonthreatening, unarmed black men with high frequency, are false. But research continues as to whether there is some detectable, smaller level of bias in the nationwide data and whether problems manifest themselves differently in different places.”

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/verbruggen-fatal-police-shootings

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caguru t1_j9vjeui wrote

Data kills narratives though.

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