Not always. Some white dudes scrapped with the cops at a Wal Mart recently in AZ, and it didn't go very well for them. The whole thing was on video. That was a hard watch.
Its honestly not that rare, in fact its more common for a white person to be shot and killed by the police than a black person. Black people are disproportionately shot and killed though, twice as likely as a white person.
I mean...they gotta run out at some point, right?
Ah so there is no systemic issue with brown people being executed by police? Because youve got google?
No-one (I hope) is using it as a a defense. Its just in threads like these, the view people often put across seems to be one where people getting shot and killed is a likely outcome. For some it is likely hyperbole, but some people I am pretty sure base their views on how often they see something in the news. If every time they see a video of a black person being arrested, they get shot and killed it appears to them as though this is the normal outcome. Something like 0.01% of arrests result in someone getting shot and killed. For black people then that figure is roughly something like 0.02%.
) this is the word people should be looking at. Instead of saying white people get special treatment, people should focus on the disproportionate targeting of POC by law enforcement. Police doing their best isn't special treatment, it's when police are shitbags that we need to call them out. When the unions protect law enforcement members from being held accountable. When prosecutors refuse to indict or play at wanting an indictment only to spoon feed a grand jury to believing there's no need to indict. The system is set up to protect police over the citizens they're sworn to protect. But the system is also set up to put the screws to minorities the most and anyone that says otherwise has to be willfully ignorant.You rarely see it because it rarely happens. I see the " disproportionate" descriptor used most of the time. Well, let's use it for the entire scope. Disroportionately, more good things are done by police, regardless of race, compared to the bad things we see. Good decisions, safest way possible are carried out more than not.
That's cool but the public and the justice system are supposed to police the police. Your culture sets your mind to protect your own, so it is necessary to have an external entity auditing your practices especially when this deals with life-or-death consequences. But what we have in this country isn't even close to that. The police system, the public, the justicial process are all stacked to have police win or have much more favorable outcomes than the ordinary citizens who get beat, shot, and tortured by police. Old racists see that easy loophole to get their kick out of committing what would normally be considered hate crimes, and that's entirely the fault of the aura of protection that exists. Hem and haw if you want, but don't blame us for wanting this to end.
Can explain why you feel that way?
Apparently /shrugs