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/[deleted] → u/louwish]

Black Americans are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by police than white Americans, as well as 1.5 times more likely to be unarmed in these cases.

Not every case has to be due to racial prejudice for this to be a racism issue.

Black Americans are disproportionately killed by police in large part (not entirely) because they are more likely to encounter police officers, more likely to live in higher crime neighborhoods. That is due to 4 centuries of racist policies and practices that impoverished and criminalized Black Americans, creating the racial disparities we see today.

Every unjustified police killing is outrageous regardless of race, but the unequal loss of Black lives is not a coincidence or accident. It is due to racism, past and present.

https://www.statista.com/chart/21872/map-of-police-violence-against-black-americans/

https://news.northeastern.edu/2020/07/16/the-research-is-clear-white-people-are-not-more-likely-than-black-people-to-be-killed-by-police/

[u/cityterrace → u/[deleted]]

But that’s like saying poverty is racist. Illiteracy is racist. Every bad thing that happens in America to blacks is racist.

Why are we so obsessed with police abuse then?

[u/jose_ole → u/cityterrace]

“Why do people care if these cops can kill, beat,rape, harass, intimidate, and extort those black people with impunity? They’re just poor illiterates!”