George Floyd Body cam Video Shows he was saying "I can't Breath" way before being put on the Ground.

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[–]NaughtyUnicorn 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

Why is it ok that the police kill so many people at all, regardless of skin color?

I have no problem with the police killing people who are trying to harm them, and in almost all of the cases where a suspect is killed it's because they were putting the officers in danger. There may have been a few accidents where the officers may have made poor choices, but I don't think that really happens enough to be making this big of a deal out of it. In those rare cases the families should sue and the officers should be punished, but riots? Come on man.

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

Idk here in Germany police killed 17 (14 shot and 3 through other means) people in 2019 while they seem to have killed 1099 (Edit: I think 604 shot and 495 other means, I had seemingly slightly conflicting data here) in the US. Something seems to be very wrong there. I don't know what it is, maybe your police doesn't try to de-escalate or americans are generally more dangerous or something in between but either way I can kind of understand people getting really upset about that, especially since very few police officers seem to ever go to jail because they killed someone.

[–]Velocity 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

There's an ethnic component in the US which you're not considering that pushes crime rates higher.

[–]Tarsius 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How do you explain that the police are also killing a lot of white people in the US?

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

in the US. Something seems to be very wrong there. I don't know what it is, maybe your police doesn't try to de-escalate or americans are generally more dangerous

Yeah, a lot of whites are killed which falls in line being the majority of the population. Though disproportionately per capita, blacks engage in more violent crime and more likely than Whites or Hispanics to use a gun during that crime. Black males of crime age are 6% or less of the black population and they commit around 50% of crime.