Do they actually believe their own lie?

No media outrage or coverage beyond Phoenix tv stations and AZ Republic over unarmed white kid who was mowed down on Mesa hotel by jittery vet cop. It does not fit the narrative

Hippopeteamus said:

AZDuck said:

I have no idea why people are upset

Eh...That chart is meaningless when looking at the percentage of population by race. You would need to look at the percentage of police encounters by race. And to draw any real conclusion about that data, you would need to look at the percentage of crimes committed by race. And you would probably have to consider the kinds of crimes committed, how much of the shootings take place in known gang territory. The more likely answer, than what BLM is protesting or Colin Kappernick, is that police are too aggressive, militaristic, and basically are just as likely to shoot every race (not every cop, I am sure there are racists cops, but that data alone would not show a systemic racism problem).

Edit: Oddly enough, there is a similar statistical problem arises in just looking at the number of violent crimes committed by race. You see white supremacist use those crime number to try and show how black Americans are more violent. Yet those stats are also meaningless unless you consider other factors like rate of single mother hood and poverty. The above chart is sort of similar, but in reverse.

Single motherhood? Poverty? The government pays more if you're a single mother that is what destroyed the black family. Poverty? Poverty shouldn't be

AZDuck said:

I have no idea why people are upset

Grabbed this from a friend I have not confirmed the numbers.

The FBI released its official crime tally for 2016 today, and the data flies in the face of the rhetoric that professional athletes rehearsed in revived Black Lives Matter protests over the weekend. Nearly 900 additional blacks were killed in 2016 compared with 2015, bringing the black homicide-victim total to 7,881. Those 7,881 “black bodies,” in the parlance of Ta-Nehisi Coates, are 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, though blacks are only 13 percent of the nation’s population. The increase in black homicide deaths last year comes on top of a previous 900-victim increase between 2014 and 2015.
Who is killing these black victims? Not whites, and not the police, but other blacks. In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The Post categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as “unarmed.” That classification masks assaults against officers and violent resistance to arrest. Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer. Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of officers—committed vastly and disproportionately by black males. Among all homicide suspects whose race was known, white killers of blacks numbered only 243.
Violent crime has now risen by a significant amount for two consecutive years. The total number of violent crimes rose 4.1 percent in 2016, and estimated homicides rose 8.6 percent. In 2015, violent crime rose by nearly 4 percent and estimated homicides by nearly 11 percent. The last time violence rose two years in a row was 2005–06. The reason for the current increase is what I have called the Ferguson Effect. Cops are backing off of proactive policing in high-crime minority neighborhoods, and criminals are becoming emboldened. Having been told incessantly by politicians, the media, and Black Lives Matter activists that they are bigoted for getting out of their cars and questioning someone loitering on a known drug corner at 2 am, many officers are instead just driving by. Such stops are discretionary; cops don’t have to make them. And when political elites demonize the police for just such proactive policing, we shouldn’t be surprised when cops get the message and do less of it. Seventy-two percent of the nation’s officers say that they and their colleagues are now less willing to stop and question suspicious persons, according to a Pew Research poll released in January. The reason is the persistent anti-cop climate.
Four studies came out in 2016 alone rebutting the charge that police shootings are racially biased. If there is a bias in police shootings, it works in favor of blacks and against whites. That truth has not stopped the ongoing demonization of the police—including, now, by many of the country’s ignorant professional athletes. The toll will be felt, as always, in the inner city, by the thousands of law-abiding people there who desperately want more police protection.

Sledog said:

Hippopeteamus said:

AZDuck said:

I have no idea why people are upset

Eh...That chart is meaningless when looking at the percentage of population by race. You would need to look at the percentage of police encounters by race. And to draw any real conclusion about that data, you would need to look at the percentage of crimes committed by race. And you would probably have to consider the kinds of crimes committed, how much of the shootings take place in known gang territory. The more likely answer, than what BLM is protesting or Colin Kappernick, is that police are too aggressive, militaristic, and basically are just as likely to shoot every race (not every cop, I am sure there are racists cops, but that data alone would not show a systemic racism problem).

Edit: Oddly enough, there is a similar statistical problem arises in just looking at the number of violent crimes committed by race. You see white supremacist use those crime number to try and show how black Americans are more violent. Yet those stats are also meaningless unless you consider other factors like rate of single mother hood and poverty. The above chart is sort of similar, but in reverse.

Single motherhood? Poverty? The government pays more if you're a single mother that is what destroyed the black family. Poverty? Poverty shouldn't be

AZDuck said:

I have no idea why people are upset

Grabbed this from a friend I have not confirmed the numbers.

The FBI released its official crime tally for 2016 today, and the data flies in the face of the rhetoric that professional athletes rehearsed in revived Black Lives Matter protests over the weekend. Nearly 900 additional blacks were killed in 2016 compared with 2015, bringing the black homicide-victim total to 7,881. Those 7,881 “black bodies,” in the parlance of Ta-Nehisi Coates, are 1,305 more than the number of white victims (which in this case includes most Hispanics) for the same period, though blacks are only 13 percent of the nation’s population. The increase in black homicide deaths last year comes on top of a previous 900-victim increase between 2014 and 2015.
Who is killing these black victims? Not whites, and not the police, but other blacks. In 2016, the police fatally shot 233 blacks, the vast majority armed and dangerous, according to the Washington Post. The Post categorized only 16 black male victims of police shootings as “unarmed.” That classification masks assaults against officers and violent resistance to arrest. Contrary to the Black Lives Matter narrative, the police have much more to fear from black males than black males have to fear from the police. In 2015, a police officer was 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male was to be killed by a police officer. Black males have made up 42 percent of all cop-killers over the last decade, though they are only 6 percent of the population. That 18.5 ratio undoubtedly worsened in 2016, in light of the 53 percent increase in gun murders of officers—committed vastly and disproportionately by black males. Among all homicide suspects whose race was known, white killers of blacks numbered only 243.
Violent crime has now risen by a significant amount for two consecutive years. The total number of violent crimes rose 4.1 percent in 2016, and estimated homicides rose 8.6 percent. In 2015, violent crime rose by nearly 4 percent and estimated homicides by nearly 11 percent. The last time violence rose two years in a row was 2005–06. The reason for the current increase is what I have called the Ferguson Effect. Cops are backing off of proactive policing in high-crime minority neighborhoods, and criminals are becoming emboldened. Having been told incessantly by politicians, the media, and Black Lives Matter activists that they are bigoted for getting out of their cars and questioning someone loitering on a known drug corner at 2 am, many officers are instead just driving by. Such stops are discretionary; cops don’t have to make them. And when political elites demonize the police for just such proactive policing, we shouldn’t be surprised when cops get the message and do less of it. Seventy-two percent of the nation’s officers say that they and their colleagues are now less willing to stop and question suspicious persons, according to a Pew Research poll released in January. The reason is the persistent anti-cop climate.
Four studies came out in 2016 alone rebutting the charge that police shootings are racially biased. If there is a bias in police shootings, it works in favor of blacks and against whites. That truth has not stopped the ongoing demonization of the police—including, now, by many of the country’s ignorant professional athletes. The toll will be felt, as always, in the inner city, by the thousands of law-abiding people there who desperately want more police protection.

Holy shit my dad just posted this same shit on Facebook. OLD RICH WHITE PEOPLE, STOp.

They aren't protesting black on black crime or white on black, they're specifically protesting crimes by cops against black people, which of course this article (and it's agenda) conveniently leave out.

I'm fine with people disagreeing with how they protest. It makes me a little uncomfortable.

You're ignorant as hell if you are trying to argue with what they are protesting.

doogie said:

No, it's an out of control clusterfuck. All we see are rich black men on their knees submitting

Every interview yields a different message.

Not a strong look

You seem to be obsessed with the fact that they have money.

And let's stop pretending that you're listening to anything any of them have to say.

The amount of white guilt on this bored is disturbing. Actually went to, and graduated from, UW and literally the only thing about that campus that makes me proud is the football team. The alumni are mostly a bunch of fucking morons.

TurdBuffer said:

AZDuck said:

A very high percentage of UW "alumni" went to Green Lake or Bellevue colleges.

Northgate State, you foreigner.

Roosevelt graduate school.