Atlanta PD Fatally Shoots Black Man in the Back

LacesOut said:
Black men are 6.5% of the population and commit 54% of all murders.
Do the math.
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The Atlanta guy,George Floyd,Brionna Taylor,Eric Garner, etc weren't murder suspects

How many of the black people cops kill are murder suspects?
 
gaussian said:
Oh right because you're suddenly not a threat to anyone when you're retreating. Maybe criminals should rob liquor stores by walking in backwards. Incredible deductive logic on display here. A whole generation of hoodlums could develop better techniques for sprinting backwards so that they're constantly in retreat! Brilliant!



Almost like police vary between police precincts and policy for escalation is state-by-state and officer-by-officer.

Who would've thought? It couldn't be something as simple as that explains the discrepancy.
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ah, yes, the myth of the lethal retreating black man who took my taser, they need a better excuse, that one's getting old, or at least sprinkle some crack on the corpse when they drop their taser.
 
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Shooting someone is often when the officer is threatened in any way.

When an unarmed suspect is running away what should the rule be?

I do not think police should be given the freedom to shoot someone in the back running away of any color, why not pursue him or was it just easier/lazier to shoot first?
 
Police pretty consistently kill 1000 people annually in the US (0.01% of arrests, 0.002% of interactions). That includes all demographics. ~25% of those deaths are black men, yet that same group accounts for 53% of known murders and 60% of known robberies. There is definitely a discrepancy there, but it doesn't support the ‘systemic racism’ assertions.
Quite the opposite.
 
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