First of all, 9 unarmed black people were killed by police, not shot. Second, the fact that any unarmed people were killed is a disgrace.
But let's put police shootings aside. You can look at numerous studies that say black people are 20% more likely to be pulled over by police. Or that they're 4x more likely to be arrested for marijuana possession as whites. Or if you look at exonerations, black people are more likely to be wrongfully convicted. There's either racism there or just a bunch of coincidences that line up.
And one more thing, if you can at least admit that racism exists and that the vast majority of white people aren't on the receiving end of it, then by definition that's white privilege. White people like me are privileged to not have experienced any racist attacks in my 26 years of living.
No they were actually shot. A couple more were killed like from a taser or some other cause so the total number is a Bit higher unfortunately.
which proofed you’re point more than it does mine. On the other hand, unarmed does not mean that they weren’t causing a threat to the police.
Some of these where even killed by black police officers.
While I agree that each and every unnecessary death is absolutely tragic, this is not the point of my argument.
My point is, that you cannot reasonably expect for something like this to never happen in a nation of more than 300,000,000 people. That is statistically almost impossible.
9/41,500,000(Black Population) = 0.0000217%
That is the chance of being shot by police as an unarmed black person in America in a full year. And people act, like the police is specifically out to randomly kill innocent black people.
The Chance of dying in trafficin the Us is 36,560/330,000,000=0.011%
That is 510 times more likely!!
If people are really afraid of that, they should never leave the house, definitely never drive a car.
People who are calling to “abolish the police” are lunatics. Those are radical leftist that want to see anarchy because they romanticize it and have no idea what it would actually look like.
while not always perfect, that police are absolutely essential and the country would go into absolute chaos if those crazy leftist got their way.
