even if we assumed every time there is a police killing of a black person it is murder.. black murder victims are far more likely to be killed by black murderers than police.
from 2017 to 2020, the number of police shootings resulting in death to a black person runs from a high of 235 to a low of 209 with the number for 2020 sitting at 105
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
In 2018 there was nearly 3000 murders of black victims. 2600 of those were committed by black people, overwhelmingly male. 234 of the murderers were white.
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u....018/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-6.xls
why is everyone so focussed on police killings when the risk of that is largely caused by the violence by blacks on blacks and others?
Why isn't this well-written story talking about how it hurts that he is 1000% more likely to be killed by another black man than he is by the police?
George Floyd is far and away the most clear-cut case of police murder. It could very well be that he had a massive heart attack during the arrest and it wasn't the knee on the neck.. but it clearly showed a total disregard for the man's life by at least one cop. The law probably makes that some form of manslaughter.
Walter Scott is the next most egregious example. About the only justification for shooting him in the back as he slowly jogged away after the scuffle with the police was that anyone who fights the police might mean they are a violent threat to the general public. Maybe he was stopped for a traffic violation, found there was an arrest warrant for unpaid child support.. and he was also a violent criminal and that's why he fought police and ran... but that's highly unlikely. The cop should have used his radio and/or his legs, not his weapon.
I won't go through every case.. but
the next one you see mentioned most often is Breonna Taylor. The police executed a search warrant, were shot at and they returned fire. Breonna was an innocent victim... a victim of the criminal who shot at police.
The police are not the main problem. We have seen people here who are black or have black sons tell us they coach their sons on cooperating with police.. yet in virtually every case, with rare exceptions, what we see in these deaths caused by police is non-cooperation.
Wouldn't these stories all be much better if they were cases of people like Eric Garner cooperating, being arrested, remaining alive, and suing police for false arrest?