Comment on Illinois gun groups report confusion, 'civil disobedience' after deadline passes to register 'assault' weapons

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Bongo_Stryker@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Lol you didn’t post the second article until I pointed out your mistake. You sir, are sneaky and deceitful. But ok let’s look at this.

“But if you’re going to look at the rates that police kill black and white male teenagers, you have to adjust for the rate that black and white male teenagers put themselves at risk – not the rate that both male and female blacks and whites of all ages commit violent crime.

Among blacks, teenage crime is much more of a problem. Black male teenagers were nine times more likely to commit murders than similarly aged white males, not two to three times as likely.”

What’s the logic here? Black boys are bad and do risky things, so it’s necessary for police to kill them?

And this claim that black boys are 9 times more likely to commit murder - well there’s a link for this possible racist propaganda but it only gives a 404 error - which means there’s no source for this claim. It sounds made up. But again, how is this relevant? Is it supposed to imply that those black boys are killers, killers I tells ya! So the cops gotta kill 'em first? But this doesn’t explain the large numbers of people killed while restrained and unable to defend themselves or pose any threat, or for those who were not apprehended for violent crimes but killed during a traffic stop, or minding their own damn business.

The whole thing reads like a blame the victim justification for systemic racism that continues to oppress, marginalize and invalidate the lives of black and indigenous people.

Still the claim about unarmed black people being 3 times more likely to be killed by police is not limited to teenage boys. It’s black people of all ages and genders. Breonna Taylor was in her home in pyjamas when police murdered her, and your " black male teens are so dangerous" piece doesn’t address that. So I don’t think your second article is convincing to anyone except maybe other cops.

Anyway I’m not here to vilify the men and women working in law enforcement, (even though in my heart I feel ACAB) but there is a problem, and ignoring it or justifying it is not good for anybody.

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