04-10-2018, 02:08 PM
(04-10-2018, 01:35 PM)Shake n Blake Wrote: I understand why people are on edge about police shootings, but I think there is too much emotion and not enough common sense behind the protesting. Cops killed 987 people in 2017, and only 19 were unarmed black men.
https://thesocietypages.org/toolbox/police-killing-of-blacks/
Sure, you could say 1 death is too many. I agree, but it's just not realistic when we're talking about human beings in high stress situations where we have no idea what happened. For example, one of these "unarmed" black men was trying to run a cop over with his car. I'm sure some of them made threatening actions or looked like they had a weapon. So what are we talking here? 5-6 cases (maybe) where a bad cop lost it and killed someone?
I would argue that we need more hand wringing over poverty, drugs, and murder in general than having a nation on edge over 19 deaths that may or may not have been justified in any way. Just feels we're being torn apart over a relatively small problem.
This^^^
Maybe they can kneel for something really worth while like all the death in Chicago. I don't like the kneeling.
