You mean normal citizens like kids who worked their asses off to earn a scholarship to a university?
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It's not.
Except when people use it as a code word to pretend that black people deserve what they get.
So he deserved to be choked to death for passing a bad cheque?
I was commenting on this quote.
"The vast majority of issues affecting the black community stem from historic inequities. The thing is, no matter how many example's I'll list, you won't believe them or find some other reason why that community a mess. It's people like you who say the US had a black president so there can be no racism or some other bullshit. But why don't you read some history books that explain the persistent ways in which POC (especially African-Americans) have been purposefully held back or impeded from improving their social standing."
Its a myth that police kill or abuse black suspects with impunity. Several scientific studies on policing have concluded as such. Look them up - Harvard University, Manhattan Institute, University of Maryland, Michigan State University. BLM is an organization that was founded upon a fallacy. And since its inception, it has become increasingly dangerous for police officers, we have seen rising rates of unprovoked attacks targeting law enforcement officials.
No one ever said absolute impunity. But look at those studies that someone told you exist. Police use of force is at a much higher rate with black suspects and in many jurisdictions, the police are protected. Thankfully the BLM movement and media attention have forced departments to be much more transparent and have to a large degree driven the use of body cams which everyone (with the exception of dirty cops) thinks is a great idea.
Blacks are stopped and assaulted by police on a significantly higher basis than other groups. That is not a fallacy. The facts are, up until fairly recently, police bad behaviour went unpunished for treating these communities poorly. BLM is not a fallacy, no matter how much the white, er, I mean right, want to pretend it is. And what changed? Not police behaviour, but the fact that there are so many cell phone and security cameras available today that show how brutal the police can be. Then you look at how the courts treat them, with qualified immunity, or how the unions are so powerful that even horrible cops get re-hired, you understand why BLM was started.
As for how much more dangerous it is to be a cop? Well, yes, there have been a range of ambush killings of officers in the past few months, but there are more dangerous jobs in the United States that don't have the same protections or unions at their backs... I mean, according to this list, cops are 22nd:
Top 25 most dangerous jobs in the United States
Roofers, power lineman, construction jobs are among the most dangerous jobs in the United States based on data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics Census of Fatal Occupational Injuries and studied by AdvisorSmith.
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I never said the group was not problematic, nor do I believe that all the donations came from black people.... The movement, however, is real and important. I mean, I could argue that Trump has stolen more cash from white conservatives than BLM could dream of, but c'est la vie....
