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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1235131)	6/1/2020 7:56:32 PM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Recommended By Tenchusatsu Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573901

You got that right! Everyone is so afraid to speak out. I can do it, because I have enough money to not care what people think of me. But the reality must be faced. When we look at the data, just as we have with COVID, we find that the narrative around black people being singled out for abuse by police officers doesn't hold up. It's a false narrative...a lie. Blacks are just using white guilt to give them victimhood status, so they can get handouts...and whites are using blacks as victims to gain politic power. It's a symbiotic and parasitic relationship, which is unhealthy for all involved. And now, that unhealthy situation has boiled over and is impacting all of the rest of us who don't want to play any of those fantasy games. See below, if you want to take the red pill. --------- Unarmed Killings of African Americans Numbered Under 10 Last Year, 4 Times Fewer Than 2015 * * And unarmed white Americans numbered nearly 20, but you didn’t see that in the media, did you? David Shuey SOURCE, Washington Post (Tip: Click “Weapon” +“Unarmed” and then click “Race”): washingtonpost.com NEW GRAPHIC MAY 31: Originally, this is the graphic I wanted for this piece, but while I’m literally hearing tear gas cannons down the street, I wrapped it up. PLEASE SHARE. KEEP THE PEACE. Wait, What Is This Posting? Why Should I Read It? You may be angry about the brutal killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. The officer is currently being charged with murder. You may be angry at the protest violence that’s erupted and want to share facts that provide perspective. You may just like data, empirical evidence, and context and not media or political spin. If you’re an apologist for people destroying police vehicles or burning down businesses, you may want to move on to the next chaotic protest. But Isn’t Data Spin? How Can I Trust It? Or You? True. Everything is spin. But I want to give you a chance to understand the data by providing direct SOURCES to everything, and explain the context simply. You can can accept and interpret as you like, or mumble something about “ lies, damned lies, and statistics” as you flip back to Twitter or Netflix. OK, What’s Your Argument? What happened in Minnesota is 100% unacceptable and should have never happened. Now let’s move beyond the rhetoric. Last year nine (9) unarmed people were killed by police who happened to be black, according to The Washington Post’s widely used data on fatal encounters with law enforcement. The same occurred to 19 unarmed people who happened to be white. And six (6) who happened to be Hispanic. I say “happened to be” because I believe this data refutes the narrative that black lives are uniquely endangered by police or that race determines outcomes more than behavior. In fact at least 10 studies indicate the same. One found “ an overall pattern of anti-White disparity” in fatal police shootings. Another said, “ blacks are 27.4 percent less likely to be shot at by police relative to non-black, non-Hispanics.” Stated another way: 99.9% of black people murdered in 2019 were *NOT unarmed and killed by cop. And 99.7% of white people weren’t. This is reality. But because we saw one awful, horrendous killing on video, the reaction is nationwide protests, violence, and destruction in dozens of cities. My main question I often wonder: Is that a rational response given reality? My second question is: Why is the media and political class reluctant to share this reality with the public to squelch this anger? But First, Here’s a Video of a White Person Killed Not Widely Known and Sporadically Covered in National NewsFor Every George Floyd* there is a Tony Timpa ignored by the larger public and the narrative of black lives being uniquely threatened. As reported in the Dallas Morning News: “Timpa wailed and pleaded for help more than 30 times as officers pinned his shoulders, knees and neck to the ground in 2016.” Watch if you can. Millions watched the death of George Floyd. In fact, with more than 200 non-black unarmed lives killed by law enforcement the past five years compared to around 100 black lives, there must be many Tony Timpas we’ve never heard much about. It would be hard to argue that a majority of Americans don’t know most of these names: Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, Sandra Bland, Laquan McDonald, Philando Castille, Stephon Clark, and Botham Jean. Far fewer know the names Zachary Hammond, Jeremy Mardis (age 6), Dillon Taylor, Dylan Noble, or Gilbert Collar. Who are they? They were all unarmed white teens or children killed by police in recent years. Yet Twitter doesn’t trend their deaths. And protests aren’t built around their names. Yes, there is a black-white disparity based on population. But there’s no racial bias when benchmarking to violent crime rates, killings of law enforcement, and overall arrest figures.All the following statistics are true. They’re also graphically represented below under matching subheads. 9 Unarmed Black People and 19 Unarmed White People Were Killed by Police in 2019 4 Times Fewer Black Americans Were Unarmed and Killed by Police in 2019 Compared to 2015 Several Sources Indicate Killings of African Americans by Cops at All Time Lows, Dropping Around 300% from 1970 Chicago Has Seen a 500% Reduction in Shootings by Police Since 1975, and Killings by Chicago Police Have Dropped In Half the Past Five Years “Unarmed and Killed by the Police”: Around 99.8% of Black Homicides and 99.5% of White Homicides Don’t Fit that Category Unarmed Blacks Are Disproportionately Killed by Cops at 34.5% of Total 2015–2019; But (Largely Unsaid) Blacks Are Also More Than 40% of Cop Killers Data Proves Media Focus on Racism and Social Justice Issues at All-Time Highs Despite Arguably Lowest Levels of Discrimination in U.S. History (This is Why You Think It’s Really Bad Right Now)

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (1235131)	6/2/2020 3:42:10 PM
From: PKRBKR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573901

And we non-black minorities are forbidden from pointing that out, especially by lily-white cowards who play the race card and say WE'RE the "Uncle Toms." So how the hell do we get through this? I see no end game.