Guess How Many Unarmed Blacks Were Killed By The Police Last Year?

[sid]

In this entire country of more than 300 million people the total is just 17! In spite of all the complaints from the black community about police brutality this is the actual figure. The total number of all criminals killed by the police, regardless of race, was 930.

These figures were reported by the Washington Post and were discussed on a Philadelphia talk radio show this morning.

[dogtag]

True, but those seventeen Blacks were Surgeons, Scientists, Judges, Lawyers,
Mayors and Reporters all going about their business. The Surgeon was shot
while operating on a patient, the Scientist while looking through his telescope,
The Mayor while Mayoring and the Reporter while reporting,
It's disgusting that this kind of indiscriminate police shooting still goes on.

[leftyo]

curious as to the number of unarmed white people. id wager it is signifigantly higher.

[bruce]

Wait a minute! "Unarmed???!!!" It doesn't matter a hoot in the theological place of eternal torment whether they are black ... white ... rainbow striped ... whatever, why in the world is the idea that police are shooting "unarmed" people not a problem, again regardless of what might be their race???!!! If this applies to unarmed criminals resisting arrest, etc., there might be some excuse, but if it applies to innocent people ... there just is no excuse for it at all. Sincerely. bruce.

[dogtag]

I guess you're "unarmed" when you've thrown
the gun into the nearest bush.

[Sandpebble]

curious as to the number of unarmed white people. id wager it is signifigantly higher.

I believe the total number of unarmed killed by police in 2017 to be 27. That would mean that "technically" the shooting of 17 unarmed blacks to be disproportionately high .

So .... now we'll piss and moan that the Blacks are whining ...... well so they should.... just like we {non Blacks} should ... that is if we weren't to busy whining about other people whining .

[Allen]

Wait a minute! "Unarmed???!!!" It doesn't matter a hoot in the theological place of eternal torment whether they are black ... white ... rainbow striped ... whatever, why in the world is the idea that police are shooting "unarmed" people not a problem, again regardless of what might be their race???!!! If this applies to unarmed criminals resisting arrest, etc., there might be some excuse, but if it applies to innocent people ... there just is no excuse for it at all. Sincerely. bruce.

This has been hashed around here before. People sometimes act very suspicious like they have a gun, won't follow the cops instructions of showing their hands, etc. A lot of people are drunk or spaced out on drugs and do some really weird things--cops don't know if they are going for their gun or not when they reach for something in their pocket or back. Often it is dark and the cop is out numbered as well. Cops in the larger cities now wear body camera's. The footage is reviewed as to what goes on. I don't see many cops having to go to jail for their actions. They're not all saint's but neither are the ones they're going up against either.

[dogtag]

It's also an unfortunate truth that Blacks commit crime
out of all proportion to their population numbers.
Lack of education can be blamed, largely because Black youth
think it unmanly to learn. ie school is for sissies.

[Allen]

There was a recent case in Mobile. The police pull over a driver named Michael Moore (fitting) that is driving erratically, the car is stolen, the police tell the driver to get out of the car and instead, he goes for his stolen pistol, the cop shoots him dead, so they put the cop on administrative leave of absence till they determine if he acted incorrectly. BS. He should have quit as well as the whole force till the city decides it seriously wants a police force.

The local liberal TV news stations, FOX being the worse, played the story every day for months trying to convince everyone the cop was at fault.

[clintonhater]

I guess you're "unarmed" when you've thrown
the gun into the nearest bush.

Correct--what else would you call it? Although you're an ignorant fool is you really think that "throwing
the gun into the nearest bush" is relevant to any of of these well-publicized "unarmed" killings, where there WAS no gun to be thrown.

The one exception was the killing of Philandro Castile, who did have a pistol permit, and informed his killer of it as required by law in many states; complying with that law was his death sentence. I have a permit, always carry, but law or no law, it would be asking for trouble to tell any cop who stopped you for a traffic violation about it.

[clintonhater]

They're not all saint's but neither are the ones they're going up against either.

Philandro Castile had no criminal record, or he'd never have been given a carry permit. Neither did Andrew Finch, the most recent victim of the "shoot first, ask questions later" policy. Neither did Andrew Shaver, and too many others to keep track off.

[togor]

It's also an unfortunate truth that Blacks commit crime
out of all proportion to their population numbers.
Lack of education can be blamed, largely because Black youth
think it unmanly to learn. ie school is for sissies.

Yeah what's the deal with these poor kids? If a 4 year old can't fix his dinner, recite his ABCs and get himself to bed at a decent hour, and get the grownups to pipe down so he can get some shut-eye, then he gets what he deserves.

Poverty is ugly. The cycle can't be broken and people are always falling into it, but most poor adults were born poor and didn't ask for that. The odds against escape go up.

[Sandpebble]

The worst one of them all is the case of my local Police dept. here in Florida . Recently they were holding "citizens academy" training exercises for civilians . They would role play various firearm related defense/offense scenarios with the civilians in an indoor and outdoor setting . And they role played with real guns .

Right there in front of the class an officer, thinking he had loaded up with blanks, put four live rounds into the chest of an elderly lady. Death of course resulting.

I'm a bit upset that my local PD found it important to "train " civilians in the first place .... but to do so while breaking every firearm safety rule we've all ever been taught .... well.

The Chief was fired a year later and though I know this was a tragic accident, I feel he should have got worse than just a firing .... as should the officer .

So...what kind of training do these guys go through? .... how confident are they in their ablity to handle the situation ? when all the way up to the Chief they couldn't even follow simple basic NRA guide lines of firearm handlng .

Frankly I think the NRA guidelines for gun handling should be law. Point a gun at someone, have an accident, don't take basic precautions to prevent theft... then accept responsibilty.

[clintonhater]

The worst one of them all is the case of my local Police dept. here in Florida ...

Bad, but not the worst. Here's the worst I've heard of, which received little attention from the national media (maybe because the victim was white), but plenty on local TV:

A young man from a prominent family in Burlington, Vt. with a long history of mental depression goes up to the pulpit of his church during a service, holds a knife to his own throat, and proceeds to tell the congregation why he "must" kill himself. He threatened no one but himself, and no one in the church felt threatened, because they tried to argue him out of it. Situation might well have ended with him putting down the knife & leaving with his friends, but some fool made the fatal mistake of calling Vt. State Troopers.

When two of them arrived, they forced everyone else out of the church, even though these people were the very ones needed to calm him down. Picture the scene: young man is up on the podium in a well lighted space, Troopers have AMPLE time to asses the situation & decide how best to handle it, and how STUPID would they have to be not to realize they were dealing with someone incapable of acting rationally??? So, when he refuses to lower the knife from his throat, he's executed on the spot.

Naturally, as always, the two killers made the standard defense: they were "afraid for their lives," even though all they had to do was leave the scene if that had been true; which, obviously, it was not. Family had the means to hire a lawyer and prosecute a civil case against the killers, but it came to naught when the judge told the jury the cops were justified, despite the absurdity of the claim, if they merely "felt threatened"; the philosophy of a police state, not a free society.

[togor]

Say I'm a private citizen out for a walk down a rural road. I am legally carrying, either openly or concealed with necessary permits. There are no bystanders nearby, nor any buildings which may have people in them. On what turns out to be a mistake, the police descend upon me on that road and confront me with guns drawn. Is my life now threatened? According to the book, no. Police are supposed to give me a way out, and if I take it, I will live, no harm done. But as a practical matter, am I in serious danger? Absolutely, yes. If I try to defend myself (which in theory is my Constitutional right) I am dead, or if I survive, spend the rest of my days in prison.

In my opinion this "in fear for my life" business is overblown everywhere. If someone shoots someone and it was a mistake, they should pay the price. Cop or citizen, it doesn't matter. Fear, shmear, make good decisions.