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Old 06-14-2020, 06:50 AM
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Originally Posted by Dahabs View Post
I used to think that way as well. Need to dig deeper into the underlying issues such as poverty, systemic and institutionalized racism. Just because there are many black on black homicides does not mean police killings should be ignored. Need to get out from our cocoon.
On the whole, police killings of unarmed people are not ignored. Most of the time those officers are prosecuted just like the officers involved in Minneapolis.

The problem is that most of the perpetrators of black on black killings never stand trial.

And if you have 1,000 people killed by one group and 19 killed by another, why is all of the attention being focused on the small group.

By he way, institutional racism is illegal in this country. If you know of an example you should report it to the local DA.
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