NOW LET'S TALK ABOUT ALL OF THE ASSHOLES WHO THINK IT'S OK TO AMBUSH AND KILL

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Final word:

I think everyone's focused on the wrong things. Everyone's looking at these shootings to see if racism was a factor. That's absurd, even a cross burning Klansman officer would use lethal force only when authorized because of all the scrutiny and risk.

Number of traffic stops for minor violations and other interactions would be a much better indicator of racism or harassment. I bet this happens all the time to white people as well. If a local officer has it out for you they can make your life miserable by fuckin with you all the time even if you're legit. Sitting across the street from you or down the the road, following you real close like you're going to get pulled over. Making up shit to pull you over for Searching you for nothing.

I've known white people the police didn't like, they were always getting followed and or pulled over. I'm sure it grinds on a person after a while and creates major hostility.

This is where you'll find the racism and harassment. It's happens all the time and we all know it.

06 impossible not to like this jam./relevant

That's exactly what that Harvard study cited by sah_24 in an early post found (albeit he only references the lack of racial bias in lethal uses of force in that post).

http://pokerfraudalert.com/forum/sho...l=1#post563214

The study did conclusively document racial bias in the other ways police interact with civilians.


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2016-0...lice-shootings

However, for Mr. Fryer, who has spent much of his career studying ways society can close the racial achievement gap, the failure to punish excessive everyday force is an important contributor to young black disillusionment.

“Who the hell wants to have a police officer put their hand on them or yell and scream at them? It’s an awful experience,” he said. “I’ve had it multiple, multiple times. Every black man I know has had this experience. Every one of them. It is hard to believe that the world is your oyster if the police can rough you up without punishment. And when I talked to minority youth, almost every single one of them mentions lower level uses of force as the reason why they believe the world is corrupt.”

And that is in addition to the greater numbers of police interactions blacks experience.

[The study] focused on what happens when police encounters occur, not how often they happen. (There’s a disproportionate number of tense interactions among blacks and the police when shootings could occur, and thus a disproportionate outcome for blacks.) Racial differences in how often police-civilian interactions occur have been shown reflect greater structural problems in society.

Which is almost certainly why Philando Castile had received 50 traffic citations -- the majority of them summarily throw out in court -- in the decade or so before that trigger-happy cop shot him up in a dumb-ass panic.