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"Police killed at least 102 unarmed black people in 2015, nearly twice each week. Nearly 1 in 3 black people killed by police in 2015 were identified as unarmed, though the actual number is likely higher due to underreporting37% of unarmed people killed by police were black in 2015 despite black people being only 13% of the U.S. population. Unarmed black people were killed at 5x the rate of unarmed whites in 2015

Only 10 of the 102 cases in 2015 where an unarmed black person was killed by police resulted in officer(s) being charged with a crime, and only 2 of these deaths (Matthew Ajibade and Eric Harris) resulted in convictions of officers involved. Only 1 of 2 officers convicted for their involvement in Matthew Ajibade's death received jail time. He was sentenced to 1 year in jail and allowed to serve this time exclusively on weekends. Deputy Bates, who killed Eric Harris, was sentenced May 31." All information was provided by http://mappingpoliceviolence.org/
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Ehh, it starts to make sense when you look at who commits the most violent crimes. For instance, there are far more men in prison than women. This does not mean that the justice system is sexist against men. Certain groups are also far more likely to resist arrest or use violence against police. That also makes sense. 13% of the nation's population commits 80% of the crime. If whites are killed five times less, then blacks are getting a favorable shake when it comes to violent crimes because they commit 6 times as many of them as whites. This means they have less of a chance of being shot by police that whites when the number of crimes are considered. These are CDC stats, not mine. Also, I clap when a drug dealer or child molester get wiped of the map. It's this strange itch I get. The easiest way to not be justifiably shot by police is to not commit a crime. That starts in the home and in the community. I don't have the time to go into the math of those aspects. There have been few instances that were unjustified uses of force, even with the racist justice department running the show. They do exist, but there are not enough to fit the race baiting narrative being crafted. Why is there not a Fed investigation when a black cop shoots a white criminal? When is the last time you saw that? THINK and use your head. ignorance breeds hatred instead of solutions. It's like pulling your throttle all the way back and expecting it to go when you still have the clutch in. A lot of noise, but no movement forward.
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LCpl Timothy McCain - Your graph accurately depicts that AAs inflict harm to AAs six times more than by whites.
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LTC (Join to see) First, we find that during the 2012/2013 period, blacks committed an average of 560,600 violent crimes against whites, whereas whites committed only 99,403 such crimes against blacks. This means blacks were the attackers in 84.9 percent of the violent crimes involving blacks and whites. This figure is consistent with reports from 2008, the last year DOJ released similar statistics. Perhaps not coincidentally, that was the year Mr. Obama was elected president.

Interestingly, we find that violent interracial crime involving blacks and Hispanics occurs in almost exactly the same proportions as black/white crime: Blacks are the attackers 82.5 percent of the time, while Hispanics are attackers only 17.5 percent of the time.
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Thats Black on Black. More White people an hispanics top the list. Every 14 hours a black child is shot not by the police officer but by anothere black person.
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SFC Alfred Galloway
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Sadly, I do NOT hear BLM bitching and complaining about the deaths of black people, only when a Police Officer overreacts. Too often when blacks are murdered no one in the neighborhood who may have seen something that could help the police they simply refuse to rat them out, or worse stand up in court to testify and thus the crime goes unsolved. Why is that?

If more people stood up and spoke out about what they saw, then more crimes would be solved. You cannot blame the police for not being able to solve the murder of a child if there is little to no forensic evidence, and people wont speak up about what they saw.
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TSgt Kenneth Ellis
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SFC Alfred Galloway - Did you lisen to Obama speech in Dallas? Isaw a pannel on fox . A Reverend said blm only cares when a black person is killed by a cop only. not when they are killed by another black man. And one crazy woman wanted to take all the arms frim the police.
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SFC Alfred Galloway
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Agreed TSgt Ellis, BLM only cares about cops killing blacks not about their own elephant in the room, BoB murders
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I grew up in a "redneck", racists family. Many of my cousins would never speak to me again if they knew my wife of 34 years is half Chinese. Hate, fear, distrust, and ignorance are the elements used by people seeking to obtain or hold on to power. I can't abide disingenuous, power hungry people taking advantage of other, less educated people for their own advancement or the advancement of a political party.
Please read the following article with an open mind:

5 Devastating Facts About Black-on-Black Crime
by JEROME HUDSON
28 Nov 2015

The mainstream American media is, again, happily hitting the Black Lives Matter crack pipe in its pernicious pursuit of high ratings. These blood-lusting junkies were nowhere to be found when, with haunting predictability, Chicago news headline after headline detailed the carnage that has consumed dozens of communities in that city where black men kill each other with terrifying regularity.

Where were these Black Lives Matter protesters after the slaying of Chicago’s little Tyshawn Lee, the 9-year-old lured into an alley and shot to death by a black man seeking gang-related vengeance against his father?

Did little Tyshawn’s murder at the hands of a black gangster–an all too common occurrence in Chicago–not warrant wall-to-wall news coverage or Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson-style calls for “justice”?

No.

Why?

Because the ugly truth behind #BlackLivesMatter is that black people killing other black people does nothing to advance its political power in the same way that one white cop killing a black criminal can.

Despite the media’s overindulgence on white cops killing blacks, there is still a far-larger amount of black bodies being sent to morgues by black killers. Here’s five devastating facts, liberals can’t deny, that prove it.

FACT 1. Over 1,400 more black Americans murdered other blacks in two years than were lynched from 1882 to 1968.

According to FBI data, 4,906 black people murdered other blacks in 2010 and 2011. That is 1,460 more black Americans killed by other blacks in two years than were lynched from 1882 to 1968, according to the Tuskegee Institute.

FACT 2. Black People (mostly men) commit a grossly disproportionate amount of crime.

In 2012, white males were 38 percent of the population and committed 4,582 murders. That same year, black males were just 6.6 percent of the population but committed a staggering 5,531 murders.

In other words: black people–at just a fifth of the size–committed almost 1,000 more murders than their white counterparts.

The figures above highlight a horrific truth that black racialists and white liberals routinely ignore: Lawbreaking black Americans, young black males particularly, put themselves in close proximity to (mostly white male) police officers at rates sometimes five to 10 times higher than whites. This is a recipe for disaster. Thusly….

FACT 3. Despite making up just 13% of the population, blacks committed half of homicides in the United States for nearly 30 years.

DOJ statistics show that between 1980 and 2008, black people committed 52% of homicides.

In 2013, black criminals committed 38% of the murders. Whites accounted for just 31 percent.

There are five times fewer black people than white people in America and, yet, they consistently carry out a larger share of the crimes? Given this rate, it’s no wonder that there aren’t more instances where cops kill black criminals.

FACT 4. Chicago’s death toll is almost equal to that of both wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, combined.

There have been almost as many deaths in one American city as there have been in the two major wars carried out by the U.S. military this century.

Chicago’s death toll from 2001–November, 26 2015 stands at 7,401. The combined total deaths during Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003-2015: 4,815) and Operation Enduring Freedom/Afghanistan (2001-2015: 3,506), total 8,321.

FACT 5. It would take cops 40 years to kill as many black men as have died at the hands of others black men in 2012 alone.

University of Toledo criminologist Dr. Richard R. Johnson examined the latest crime data from the FBI’s Supplementary Homicide Reports and Centers for Disease Control and found that an average of 4,472 black men were killed by other black men annually between Jan. 1, 2009, and Dec. 31, 2012.

Professor Johnson’s research further concluded that 112 black men died from both justified and unjustified police-involved killings annually during this same period.

Follow Jerome on Twitter: @jeromeehudson
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Sgt William Themann
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IDK how old you are I'm 53, a kid of the 70's. If a interracial couple walked down the street it was VERY rare. I have 2 mommies or 2 daddies was the very definition of rare. I think the world is a far more tolerant place than when we were kids. The effort that BLM puts into the recent "protests" could do a lot of good if they addressed REAL problems:
Abortions are killing black babies way more than white.
Black on Black killings in Liberal lead cities like Chicago are devastating. Good post sir.
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SSgt Jerry DeLaney
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As usual SFC Alan O., a certain percentage of people miss the point. I'm not talking about who kills who more. Black, White, Latino, Asian, or any other race, killing is wrong. What I am talking about is the power hungry people who use these tragic, senseless, crimes to create fear and distrust, which turns to hatred, to build for themselves a power base, by which they make a living without working. The manufacturer an unelected position of authority over the very people they claim to be helping. The Neo-nazis, the KKK, the Black Panthers, the Black Lives Matter, the Latin Kings, and any of a thousand other groups, they have different agendas and control different groups of people but they are all the same.
The solution isn't easy. Education (affordable and usable trade skill education), employment (that can support a family), respect (for others and for self), purpose (something beyond self). Personally, I believe a Christ centered life is the solution. But, there are certain elements of society that just want to see the world burn and to grab everything they can along the way.
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If more white people was killed by police than African Americans why are they protesting?
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Because we only hear what the main stream media want us to hear. Because some of the leading figures in our nation wants to keep the United States in strife, fighting each other so we can't focus on the real problems our nation is currently facing, maybe like national debt, some of the bills which have passed silently through Congress and we've been too unfocused to notice. As long as we Americans are divided, we can't be united and this is the way we will be defeated from with in.
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Half of the comments here are straight bullshit and I'll tell you why. Statistics are based on how many documented, that means if something wasn't documented then it wasn't included. Plus the whole issue of everybody trying to dumb down the issue of lives being lost unjustly shows fucking ignorance. The point is that people were unjustly killed by scum who slipped through the cracks to wear a badge they didn't deserve to wear. If you want to get technical white people are more prone to violence than any other race against other races and even other whites. Need proof? KKK, Aryan Brotherhood, CCofC, Army of God, the list goes on but Blacks and other minorities are more prone to violence, right? Here's the thing about statistics, they could always be doctored up in order to someone's advantage, people tend to forget that. The weird thing is that some of you who have made the comments you have actually been fooled into thinking that life is fair for everyone. The truth is that it's not. The truth is that it's not fair for everyone. Racism exists in this country from goverment on down to the individual and until people actually start seeing shit for what it really is nothing will change, it will continue to be a clusterfuck. Some of you don't want to hear the words "white privilege" because it makes you antsy. You don't want to even fathom that your chances of succeeding in life are greater because of the color of your skin as opposed to somebody of a different color. Am I saying you all are racist? No I don't believe either one of you are racist and I'll tell you why, you serve or have served beside people of color and even hang out with them. I'm so sure of that because our military branches consist of people from different races, cultures, genders and backgrounds, and yes, even with that fact there is still prejudice in our armed forces but it is not tolerated or at least I would like to think so. Anyway, I don't think that neither one of you are racist, misogynistic or prejudiced but I do think you're misinformed. How many of you have actually ever hung out in a black neighborhood? What I mean by that is actually go to someone's house or maybe a bar or nightclub in a black neighborhood? I'm pretty sure you haven't. You get your information from the news and you trust that information because "why would they lie," right? So from that your view of Blacks and any other color is that of being whiney. You can't see that you've been bushwhacked and bullshitted for the simple purpose of profit. You can't see that you've been influenced to hate someone for the profit of someone who hates you and the people you've been influenced to hate but they fooled you by telling you that you are just like them, when in reality, they wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire. They would only placate you long enough to achieve their purpose then throw you away like disguarded trash, and blame the people they influenced you to hate as the reason for your loss, when in fact it is them who fucked you over. So you're fooled into thinking that the people of color are your problem when they are just trying to do the same thing you're trying to do and that's live. Your real problem are the people who look like you who benefit from you not realizing they are conning you for profit and who can easily achieve this by claiming that they are just like you, when they are not and look down on you with the same superiority as they do everyone else, and fool you into thinking everyone else is your problem. The whole idea that any of you would even think of trying to down play a movement that's about saving lives with bullshit statistics is beyond me. Statistics shouldn't even be a factor, the fact that people are unjustly dying as a result of gross incompetence should be more important than some fucking statistics. It's just like the issue of gun violence, instead of actually sitting down at the table and coming up with ideas of how to at least attempt to solve the problem, They are fighting like two bratty kids over a fucking toy. The loss of life is a serious fucking issue I don't give two fucks what color, race, gender you are, it's fucking problem that needs to be dealt with. You and I took an oath to defend this country against all enemies foreign and domestic, unjustifiable death are one of the enemies of this country and for us to down play a movement that is trying to change that is going against that oath. So take it how you want, I don't actually give a fuck but that's how it is. Now, you could either support the Black Lives Matter movement or not but don't start acting like it's just people whinning for no reason because it's not. I've had my say on this and if it made some of you angry, then good maybe it takes some of you getting angry before you realize that the loss of life unjustly is a serious problem in America that must be dealt with. Maybe it takes you being angry for you to pull your heads out of your asses and see that this is an important issue that needs to be taken seriously. If you value life then you should be in support of a movement with the intent on preserving life. So I'm gonna end this because I sure that most of you are just itching to get into a fucking pissing contest with me over my statements but I could careless. Semper Fi, OOHRAH!
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SSG Ryan R. - I can agree with you about music and a lot of what you've said about neighborhoods among other things and there's one thing I've noticed in your statement that I like, you speak from experience not some damn statistic. I'm not a fan of gangster rap myself but even some other genres of music do the same as gangster rap. Honestly, in my book, the kind of music you listen to don't actually promote what lifestyle you live. I've known rich people who listen to gangster rap, just as I've seen poor people listen to rock and country including yours truly. Anyway, like you said you live in a working class neighborhood, crime is low because of the opportunities there. In poor neighborhoods there are little or no opportunities there. The quality of goods and services are bad. It's easy for you to take pride in your neighborhood when you have the opportunity and means to do so but when you don't have those things it becomes a lot harder. Now, like as I was stating to the butterbar, to say Blacks are more likely to commit a crime and be violent is an unfair statement as well as lumps people in as a whole. What he fails to understand is that no one should be classified as a statistic especially because of race. It's an unfair assumption that could get someone killed. Sure I agree that crime happens in poor neighborhoods more than anywhere else due to access of services needed by the community but that's based on income not race or ethnic background, your statement just proved that and I thank you for it.
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Like I said before, the music you listen to doesn't promote the life you live. As far as culture goes, I wouldn't say it's a culture thing, it's more of a "how many people I can get to buy this shit" sort of thing. Rap music used to make a statement but now, it's pitiful. The true purpose of rap is to tell a story. These guys who rap about bitches and 'hos are doing so to promote their persona, that's it. What they rap about doesn't promote anything. It just serves as entertainment for anybody willing to spend the money to listen to it.
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SSG Ryan R. - I can agree with you about some parents not being parents because I've seen some myself but I think more of the fencing in as you say and bad parenting. The less opportunities and access to those things needed. I've known people who had bad parents but still managed to becomes successful in life because they had access to the means to do so as well as the encouragement. Sometimes they didn't have the encouragement but the point is, they had access to the opportunities to raise themselves up. I agree kids need to be taught respect and hard work, I'm a strong believer in that but if they don't have the opportunity, then no matter how much you raise them right or teach them respect they are going to do what they need in order to survive and if they don't have access to the right things, they are gonna do the wrong things. Now, I hear you about your parents teaching you hard work and respect but I'm pretty sure even if they were struggling they still had more access to help that would bring them up out of their rut. In other words, they had options and was aware of those options as well as opportunities. Now, I'm not here to make excuses for anything but things are a little bit easier when you're stomach is not growling so loud that you can't hear what the teacher is saying. It's hard to think passed being poor when you see your parents working just to make ends meets barely making any money and having to decide on keeping a roof over their heads or food in their belly. Now, you say that raising the minimum wage to $15/hr won't help but I respectfully disagree and I'll tell you why. It will help because if people are paid a decent wage and not having to try to hustle to get overtime or a second even a third job to make ends meet, it means that they could actually have the time to teach their kids right from wrong as well as show their kids that they don't have to break the law to make ends meet. Plus, they could show their kids hard work does pay off. The whole reason why these kids look up to these rappers is because their parents are too busy and by the time they get home from work, they are too tired. They are worn out and I'm sure that you'll agree that nobody should have to work so hard that they don't have enough time for their kids. It's not like when our parents were working, they didn't have to work two or three jobs just to make ends meet. They were able to work one job and survive, these days prices are a lot higher and the pay is lower. Kids see that and end up feeling that hard work doesn't pay off. Then they see rappers, even criminals with houses and cars that cost more than 10 years of their parents total wages added up and it contradicts what their parents are trying to teach them about hard work. There are a lot of low wage earning parents who can't compete with this. Fight as they may, they can't compete and can only hope through some kind of miracle that their kids will not go down that path but without access to proper education, gainful employment and barely any interaction with their parents, the kids end up suffering and subject to influence by those who are undesirable.
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That's a pretty long list of nonsense you wrote. You obviously don't like white people. That's fine. We don't care. And as for your question...Yes, I worked in a majority black city for 20 years. I can assure you I know what I'm talking about. The interesting thing is, it's blacks killing, robbing, assaulting, raping blacks. The overwhelming majority of our criminals were black. I get that it sucks to be a hard working, law abiding black man and having to admit that it's blacks keeping blacks down. But living in denial and blaming this "white privilege" silliness will not solve your problems.
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I don't want to repeat or rephrase the point 2LT Michael Tobin was trying to make, so I'll just add this: I was curious..., so after doing a little research, I think it would be useful for you to start checking the sources of your sources and yeah, their sources too. Actually, take a good look at their excel spreadsheets and databases. I'm not saying, personal web sites For-the-Friend-of-So-and-So, and a collection of newspaper articles doesn't have any value, but the credibility if often questionable and subject to bias. Just something to consider when digesting all these numbers and statistics.
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The bias is well-documented. Racial profiling, stereotypes and the "war on drugs" with sentences drastically higher for crack cocaine than regular cocaine (crack is more prevalent among African Americans) are all well known instances of the institutional racism that lingers in this country.

Black Lives Matter is a movement, much like the Civil Rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s and the Women's Suffrage movement of the 1890s and 1900s with a single purpose of righting a wrong.
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PFC Jay Miner
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Sorry Andrew.....I COMPLETELY disagree. The BLM movement MAY have started out as a good thing, but it has been transformed into a 100% RACIST HATE MACHINE....
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It's interesting to me that the President yesterday asked us to not to paint the whole BLM movement by the chants of a few protesters, "pigs in a blanket; fry'em like bacon" or "what do we want? Dead cops! Whe do we want it? Now!" Yet he personally over the last 8 years has denigrated a whole profession because of the actions of a few bad actors.

Hypocrisy much?
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PFC Jay Miner - So says the conservative echo-chamber.
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SGM Charlie Fergurson - Good quote SGM. "Up From Slavery" should be required reading to learn perspective and see what strength of character is.
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Your syntax has me confused. Are you asking why aren't Whites protesting or why are Blacks Protesting?
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Someone asked the question to me. He was saying if police killed more white people each year than black and white people don't protest why are black people protesting.
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Here is a statistical analysis that comes to a different conclusion about blacks being shot by police. He found blacks were LESS likely to be shot by police but more likely to beat blacks than whites. Do cops that discriminate need to be removed , yes! Note, the author of the study is black http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/28107/
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BLM (Big Lies Matter)
False stats.
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