TheBigIguana
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No you don't, you're sat in here justifying it.
Current Affairs The " another shooting in America " thread
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I am not as certain of that as you appear to be.
According to the new report, Connecticut's police used Tasers 650 times last year. Ken Barone, a researcher at Central Connecticut State University's Institute for Municipal and Regional Policy, co-wrote the report and found racial disparities in the data.
He found that black men were about three times more likely to be Tased than simply warned. For Latino men, it was over 40 percent more likely to be Tased than warned. For white men, the chance of being Tased or warned were about the same.
I'm not. I've said repeatedly he didn't deserve to die; but he did create the situation where he could be killed.
He was an idiot.
Yes, because there's racial bias. There's a lower threshold for black people being tased. Not denying that.
But someone breaking out of an arrest situation and attempting to escape in a car is tased every single time regardless of skin colour.
TheBigIguana
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Yeah as I was saying
I have no data to know if that statement is true or not - I suspect you don’t either.
Well he did?
Answer me this - if he doesn't resist arrest and drive off, does he get shot?
No.
It's not like the George Floyd incident, which is murder, clear as day. In this, two mistakes have happened - he resists arrest and attempts to escape, the officer shoots with a gun instead of a taser. That's it. No racial bias.
I'm fairly sure if a white guy shrugs off the police, jumps in a car and attempts to drive off, they're tased.
Whereas in your world apparently the police chuckle, say "boys will be boys" and give him a merry wave as he drives away.
Not everything is down to skin colour. The police arrest white people every day too.
No, they pursue or pick them up later as they know their address.
Or they give more warnings before deployment of taser.
Yes police arrest white people every day too - they just happen to do it with less of those arrestees getting shot during the process.
TheBigIguana
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The problem is it all goes deeper than individual interactions but you're unwilling to see that
I've said repeatedly there's obvious racial bias in American policing.
The problem I have is protesting EVERY incident regardless of context. Because it dilutes the point. Most looking at that are thinking "guy tries to run, cops make a mistake, why are they going on about Black Lives Matter over it?"
TheBigIguana
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The bias doesn't just turn off mate
Not every cop hates black people.
TheBigIguana
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Again bigger than individuals
How often are people pulled over for an air freshener and then asked to get out of the car and handcuffed for it for instance?
Seems a remarkably trivial offense to be arrested for.
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