You are a complete brainwashed drone.
I am calling for equality, you are calling for the opposite, yet you are so brainwashed you don't even see it
Math. Conservative Kryptonite.
You literally aren't...
MAGA: Rubbish! TWICE as many white people are killed by cops!! Reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
MATH: There are 328,2 million Americans. For every 100 of those Americans, 60 are white and 13 are black.
In 2020, 457 white folks, and 214 black folks were killed by police.
In order to say *all* lives matter *equally*, police would have to kill 214 black folks and then up their game and kill 1112 white folks every year, or cool their jets after killing 457 white folks and only kill 99 black folks.
That's how mathematical percentages work, and are different from looking at totals.
If the US was a country with *only* white folks, it would have 196,92 million citizens and cops murdered 457 of those citizens last year. That's ,00023% of the citizenry murdered by law enforcement in 2020.
If the US was a country with *only* black folks, it would have 42,66 million citizens and cops murdered 214 of those citizens last year. That's ,00050% of the citizenry murdered by law enforcement in 2020.
Last I checked, ,00023% ≠ ,00050%
But I get it. Math is hard.
And cops shouldn't be killing anyone anyway.
Say, here's a thought... and work with me...
If we revisit the way law enforcement works, and maybe, just maybe send mental health folks to incidents like Tony's, a specialist would have managed the situation better than a bunch of hammers who only see nails.
Maybe, just maybe a mental health expert would have recognised a psychotic episode caused by being off medication and would have dealt with Tony accordingly, not, you know, with a knee in the neck.
Perhaps this response could be community specific.
Maybe, just maybe we should come up with a name for this approach... something like, "correct allocation of resources to provide situationally correct responses"
Nah, that's a bit heavy and won't catch on...
Now I'm thinking maybe three words max... something, something the police?
Help a brother out with an appropriate first word, pal.