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Originally Posted by GoodLife
Looks like WAPO updated their numbers. So in 2019 55 unarmed people were killed, 15 Black and 25 White.
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Just to be clear, 55 unarmed people were
shot to death by police; there were 114 unarmed people killed in all.
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Originally Posted by GoodLife
WAPO also said
“The number of black and unarmed people fatally shot by police has declined since 2015." (by 60%)
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Which is at least some sort of progress & there was relatively little hubbub until Floyd's death. The spark that lit this flame seems to be the
attitude of Officer Chauvin shown in the video, plus the fact that he used the neck restraint for no good reason to begin with & then kept the pressure on until way after George Floyd quit breathing. It seems to me to be easy to understand why people were incensed by this video and how it reopened old wounds. (Once again: I am NOT justifying rioting or looting!)
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Originally Posted by GoodLife
The point of this post is to show the scale of these issues. Whether it's Doctors or nurses etc, several well known entities like John Hopkins have found that over 200,000 die each year due to medical errors.
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It's an obvious tragedy that so many die from medical errors, but it's just not the same thing at all. You seem hellbent on denying or at least ignoring the racial/racist component of the whole George Floyd issue. This has been beaten around ad nauseum on numerous threads, many of which you've started and/or commented on. Why keep picking at the same scab, day after day after day?