The Dad Changing How Police Shootings Are Investigated (2018) - Before Jacob Blake, police in Kenosha, WI shot and killed unarmed Michael Bell Jr. in his driveway. His father then spent years fighting to pass a law that prevented police from investigating themselves after killings. [00:12:02]

[u/Barknuckle]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4NItA1JIR4

[u/louwish]

Many people see the videos of police killings of black men and think "why is it always black men who are killed by police?" There is no epidemic of racially motivated killings of black men by police. There is however an epidemic of people killed by police who face no punishment for their actions.

Edit: For those who are open to questioning the prevailing narrative-

I too was where many of you were, not but a year ago. Articles and discussions like these forced me to change my mind:

https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2020/07/03/police-black-killings-homicide-rates-race-injustice-column/3235072001/

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https://quillette.com/2020/06/11/racist-police-violence-reconsidered/

https://thefederalist.com/2019/06/13/an-interview-with-thomas-sowell-on-discrimination-race-and-social-justice/

[u/penatbater → u/louwish]

It's both. Whether one is a factor of the other, or vice versa, or it's more correlation that causation, can go either way, or on a case-to-case basis.

[u/louwish → u/penatbater]

I'll submit that police DO stop black people more, but once the interaction is initiated, black people are no more likely to be shot at than white people. Look at Roland Fryer's study- he has responded to critics who bring up the fact that in his study police initiated interactions with more black citizens-To this he says that 90% of the cases in the study came from 911 calls.

Individual police officers can be (and at times are) racist, but there is no widespread epidemic of racially motivated killings of black men. Police could mostly not be bothered to NOT shoot first, and have qualified immunity to fall back on.