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[–]magnora7 14 insightful - 5 fun14 insightful - 4 fun15 insightful - 5 fun -  (4 children)

US police kill about 900 Americans every year. About 50% are white.

In Germany, police kill 0.5 people per year on average. In the UK they kill 1.3 a year on average. We have a police violence problem, and that comes back to a lack of accountability for wrongdoing, because our justice system gives police special treatment.

[–]asterias 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

A note about those statistics, while police in other countries rarely kill someone, that doesn't mean that they still don't have a problem with police beating innocent people or placing them under false charges and so on.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

In the US we have a problem with police regularly killing people when they go on wellness checks

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

They divided people by race and pro-BLM or PRO-police.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Yes they made a police misconduct issue, which affects all of us, in to a race issue. They invalidated people who are white and want police reform. They also invalidated people who are black who think all races suffer because of police misconduct, and that general police reform is needed. Instead the conversation is centered fervently around racism, thanks to the media. They successfully divided and conquered people over what should be a relatively straightforward issue.