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Want to go over case by case?Now think about the defenders of the police. They have to shoot because the bad guy MIGHT be armed. They were afraid the bad guy would be armed. They couldn’t take the chance. They had no choice.
I have never taken issue with the cops shooting someone armed. I argue that we can learn and improve with every situation if we examine it for more than covering the cops ass.
Now consider the blind support of cops. How shooting unarmed people is perfectly justified because he MIGHT have a weapon. Now look at the pandemic where precautions were unjustified because we didn’t KNOW what the mortality rate was. When part, a big part, of that lower mortality was because while we ran close to the limits we managed to avoid exceeding the vital care that saved so many lives.
There are millions of interactions between Black people and police annually, including about 2 million arrests.
In 2019, 1,004 people, mostly white, were shot dead by the police, according to the Washington Post. Assuming that an average of one police officer is involved per killing, then 1,004 police officers, or fourteen-hundredths of 1% of America’s 700,000 police officers, were involved in fatal police shootings. Obviously, the typical police officer will never kill anyone in his career.
Some Lessons from a Washington Post Graphic on Police Shootings
It's no secret to readers of the Volokh Conspiracy, nor to readers of our host site Reason.com, that the American…reason.com
A Washington Post shows that 14 Black and 25 white “unarmed” Americans were shot dead by police in 2019. An analysis that was broadcast on "Tucker Carlson Tonight" of 10 of the “unarmed” Black decedents showed that for five of these persons, calling them unarmed is misleading: two had cars, one had a stun gun, and two others had guns, authorities said. In those two cases where the decedents had guns, which were the only cases where the weapons were not used to assault police, the officers faced homicide charges.
Even if the remaining deaths were criminal, they do not add up to a narrative of numerous police officers indiscriminately murdering unarmed Black men. Neither do all Black detainees die unless they resist arrest. Indeed, the odds of any unarmed person being shot dead by police are less than their odds of being struck by lightning.
Now, here is a question that is rather rhetorical, but you or the racist Mac1958 can answer it if you like. Don't you hate when facts contradict the left wing hyped narrative?
Half of those shot by police in Georgia were unarmed or shot in the back.
OVER THE LINE: Police shootings in Georgia
Explore reports and cases from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution’s year-long examination of police shootings in Georgia.investigations.ajc.com
Now why didn’t that make it into your Washington Post Report?
41 unarmed people shot in 2019.
19 were white
9 were black
6 were Hispanic
Rest...other
Now, let's go over case by case. You made the claim, now present each case and we will study them.
Is that fair?