BarryP wrote:
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Your point is that blacks can be justifiably terrified when the statistics seem to reveal enough bias. Can cops do the same?Yes, they are allowed to be terrified when they see a black guy. But they aren't allowed to scream at him with a gun pointed at his face for a routine traffic stop.
Keep in mind, you're comparing a scared black man holding his hands out of a window and not reaching in side of his car for fear of getting shot, to two allegedly trained police officers pulling guns on him, screaming at him, threatening him, and macing him because they were scared of a black man in a military uniform with his hands stuck out of a window.
No. I didn't compare anything. I just put out a statistic.
And I wouldn't use that statistic to defend these cops. I think the cops were terrible, and suggested they should be disciplined or fired in an earlier post. I would use that statistic to argue that as I judge the cops (and I'm not a cop) so will I be judging the any other citizen (regardless of color).
Slowman writes that he's white so he can't say too much about what a black man might best do with respect to the police. He wishes to express that this is a data driven opinion because of his statistic about blacks being killed by cops. I'm just pointing out that it's not a data driven opinion anymore than someone telling you that you can't judge cops reactions to black people because of a statistic about cops killed by blacks. I think that's all baloney, and thought it would be obvious when people saw it applied to the police just as much as it applied to black americans.
In the end I'll keep from hypocrisy by moving away from identity politics for everyone, not by trying to get the cops included too.