This is an absolutely valid point, and is why I find it hard to take sides on this. I feel more unsafe when I'm walking home and am alone on the street with a suspicious black (than white) person and this fear (regardless of how justified it is) I have developed after only three years of living in the US and based on personal experience so I can only imagine what it should be like for a police officer. But again, we are responsive to the situation and circumstances. I may get a cold chill when I find myself alone with a suspicious person on the street, but I'll feel a lot safer when I'm with a friend or when the neighborhood is safe. This has to be the case and even more so for a police officer because another individual's life is in his hands. The natural instinct developed throughout years of knowledge and experience accumulation on how to deal with gangs, criminals etc should not carry over into much simpler and smaller in scope instances. In quite a few of these cases what police did was borderline murder.
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This is a very silly argument though. First, if there are bad cops and good cops, there are blacks who want and those who don't want to "riot" or be violent. Second, we are talking about two different and unrelated causes for these deaths, which makes the "number" of people killed in each case irrelevant. It's like saying we shouldn't be talking about child abuse because what about a much greater number of children who die in accidents.
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This is a very silly argument though. First, if there are bad cops and good cops, there are blacks who want and those who don't want to "riot" or be violent. Second, we are talking about two different and unrelated causes for these deaths, which makes the "number" of people killed in each case irrelevant. It's like saying we shouldn't be talking about child abuse because what about a much greater number of children who die in accidents.
