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All Lives Matter
#91
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 28, 2017 at 6:31 pm)Tiberius Wrote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...es-but-no/

"White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers."

He said "an inordinate amount"  Obviously, he thinks that just the right amount of black people are being killed by police (but, hey, just so I don't pigeonhole him..maybe he thinks that the police are slightly behind quota).

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#92
RE: All Lives Matter
My life matters.
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#93
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 28, 2017 at 7:03 pm)Khemikal Wrote:
(June 28, 2017 at 6:31 pm)Tiberius Wrote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...es-but-no/

"White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers."

He said "an inordinate amount"  Obviously, he thinks that just the right amount of black people are being killed by police (but, hey, just so I don't pigeonhole him..maybe he thinks that the police are slightly behind quota).

Angel


Whatever we're paying you it isn't enough.  Farming and not comedy writing .. how'd that happen?
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#94
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 28, 2017 at 7:02 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Here's a few other sources:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/d...acial-bias

Uh, I wasn't disputing the fact reported by the Washington Post. In fact, I interacted with it. Did you not read the rest of my post?
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#95
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 28, 2017 at 7:05 pm)OverGod Wrote: My life matters.


Bullshit!  Troll lives do NOT matter.
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#96
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 28, 2017 at 7:03 pm)Khemikal Wrote:
(June 28, 2017 at 6:31 pm)Tiberius Wrote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...es-but-no/

"White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers."

He said "an inordinate amount"  Obviously, he thinks that just the right amount of black people are being killed by police (but, hey, just so I don't pigeonhole him..maybe he thinks that the police are slightly behind quota).

Angel

Cool, but do you have an actual response to the points I've raised instead of trying to say I'm a racist?

I thought this was supposed to be a forum of intellectuals. (just kidding I never thought that, lol).

(June 28, 2017 at 7:03 pm)Khemikal Wrote:
(June 28, 2017 at 6:31 pm)Tiberius Wrote: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post...es-but-no/

"White people make up roughly 62 percent of the U.S. population but only about 49 percent of those who are killed by police officers. African Americans, however, account for 24 percent of those fatally shot and killed by the police despite being just 13 percent of the U.S. population. As The Post noted in a new analysis published last week, that means black Americans are 2.5 times as likely as white Americans to be shot and killed by police officers."

He said "an inordinate amount"  Obviously, he thinks that just the right amount of black people are being killed by police (but, hey, just so I don't pigeonhole him..maybe he thinks that the police are slightly behind quota).

Angel

Cool, but do you have an actual response to the points I've raised instead of implying that I'm a racist?

I thought this was supposed to be a forum of intellectuals. (just kidding I never thought that, lol).
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#97
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 28, 2017 at 7:05 pm)ManofYesterday Wrote:
(June 28, 2017 at 7:02 pm)Tiberius Wrote: Here's a few other sources:

http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/07/d...acial-bias

Uh, I wasn't disputing the fact reported by the Washington Post. In fact, I interacted with it. Did you not read the rest of my post?

Why mention it as a bad source then?

Also your Crime Prevention Research Center study was not as you described: http://www.snopes.com/black-police-offic...ck-people/
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#98
RE: All Lives Matter
(June 28, 2017 at 7:05 pm)Whateverist Wrote:
(June 28, 2017 at 7:03 pm)Khemikal Wrote: He said "an inordinate amount"  Obviously, he thinks that just the right amount of black people are being killed by police (but, hey, just so I don't pigeonhole him..maybe he thinks that the police are slightly behind quota).

Angel


Whatever we're paying you it isn't enough.  Farming and not comedy writing .. how'd that happen?

(June 28, 2017 at 7:07 pm)Tiberius Wrote:
(June 28, 2017 at 7:05 pm)ManofYesterday Wrote: Uh, I wasn't disputing the fact reported by the Washington Post. In fact, I interacted with it. Did you not read the rest of my post?

Why mention it as a bad source then?

Also your Crime Prevention Research Center study was not as you described: http://www.snopes.com/black-police-offic...ck-people/
Because the Washingon Post isn't a good source. Neither is Snopes. Snopes is run by a liberal couple lol (used to be anyways). It's not like they're team of PhDs with a penchant for objectivity.

That being said, the statistic I  mentioned was reported by the Washington Times. But instead of citing the Washington Times, I cited the source that they cited: the Crime Prevention Research Center. I'm not even going to read the Snopes article because I've actually read the study and I've read the Washington Times article which directly quotes from the study, which says that black officers are more likely to kill blacks than white officers.

Finally, there are other points that I made besides mentioning that the Washington Post sucks and the crime statistic. Those points were actually the heart of my post and I've noticed you ignored them. Choosing instead to harp on me saying the Washington Post sucks and the crime statistic.

By the way, here's that Washington Times article that mentions the statistic. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016...black-cop/ And in that article the Washington Times gives the following quote from the study, "White officers are significantly less likely than black officers to kill black suspects, and they are not statistically significantly different from Hispanic, other race, and unknown race police officers"
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#99
RE: All Lives Matter
The Washington Times is not a good source.

See? I can play this game too.
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RE: All Lives Matter
(June 28, 2017 at 7:17 pm)Tiberius Wrote: The Washington Times is not a good source.

See? I can play this game too.

Alright, but I made points that are not connected with the Washington Times, Washington Post, Snopes, or the crime statistic that I mentioned. When are you going to address that? That was the heart of my response.

Also, did you actually read the study or did you just take Snopes' word for it? Here's what the study said, "When either the violent crime rate or the demographics of a city are accounted for, we find that white police officers are not significantly more likely to kill a black suspect. For the estimates where we know the race of the officer who killed the suspect, the ratio of the rate that blacks are killed by black versus white officers is large — ranging from 3 to 5 times larger.https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?...id=2870189

So, now do you understand why Snopes is garbage?
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