Micheal Brown deserved to be shot.

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You also said that black people are more likely to be criminals and I don't think that's true. I think they're more likely to be caught and more likely to be incarcerated but not more likely to commit crimes.

I think you probably have a hard time finding numbers to support your position if you you do look up those statistics, Losty. Take murder for example. Blacks only make up about 13% of the US population, but account for about 50% of the murder convictions. Since there is a conviction in only about 65% of murders are these days a black person is convicted in little more than 30% of murders. Even if white people committed all the murders in which there was no conviction they would also have to had committed more than half of the murders in which a black person was convicted. Since we haven't even considered other minorities the math would probably be more like two thirds to three quarters of the blacks in jail for murder are innocent of the charge. While I don't doubt that some of them are innocent I doubt if two thirds of them are.

Please don't take my analysis of the numbers to mean that I think black people are more likely to be murderers than white people because of genetics. I don't. Socioeconomic conditions undoubtedly account for much of the discrepancy. But you can't lay all of it on poverty alone either. Because while a higher percentage of blacks live in poverty than whites, (27% black / 10% white) there are nearly twice as many whites living in poverty than blacks in the US.