No argument that blacks are disproportionately involved in violent crime and violent confrontations beget violent outcomes.
Also true that far more blacks are killed by other black civilians than by police and that police kill far more whites than blacks, in raw numbers.
Since police control the official account of fatal encounters, the true circumstances of any fatal encounter with whites or blacks may be otherwise than reported, as we periodically see when footage emerges that puts the lie to fabricated police accounts.
It is entirely conceivable that some police are also murdering white people.
However, since they kill many more whites than blacks overall, if they are also murdering more whites than blacks, it is curious that disproportionately fewer of these instances are recorded.
As it happens, it appears mainly blacks are being filmed getting killed by police. It therefore logically follows that it probably happens disproportionately more often to black men and, if so, reflects a more widespread disregard for the lives of black men by police.
As to cause, I don't contend it is even necessarily borne purely of racist hatred, even if that is likely, at least in some instances. In other instances, it may be sociopathic or brutalised police killing black men because, unless someone films it, they are less likely to get in trouble for it within sympathetic police and justice administrations.
It is illustrative in this case, that we don't see an immediate arrest for murder or manslaughter. Instead, days later, we see the Mayor decrying the incident and urging charges be laid.
Returning to cause, it seems to me, the gradual and unconscious assimilation, over a long period, of the same disregard for black lives regularly demonstrated by the black men in the violent community being policed may be a factor, negatively influencing police, even on a subconscious level.
To an extent, it may become 'normalised' behaviour, bearing in mind unlawful killings take place in a context where a lot of 'justified' killing also take place, and that concept has been so often missapplied, as to result in a dangerously elastic practical application that wouldn't be recognisable here or in the UK.
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