> This is a declaration of how un-civilized and rotten USA is.
Or it shows how hysterical people are in a country with the most advanced democracy, civil rights and justice system in the world.
Or it shows how hysterical people are in a country with the most advanced democracy, civil rights and justice system in the world.
Those who disagree, tell me: the ratio of incarcerated males to females is something like 9:1. Similarly a far greater number of men die at the hands of police than women. Is the justice system biased against men?
And if we extend this myopic logic, is there a huge problem of racism in the black community? Because black on white crime (including violent crime) is something like 10x the rate of white on black crime. Is there a systemic problem with racism in the black community?
The entire country has gone insane.
Edit: if there's something wrong with my reasoning, please feel free to point it out. Silent downvotes only reinforce the stigma, yes, stigma that is now associated with the same rational inquiry that I'm paid to perform each day as a research scientist.
Edit 2: I can't find a source for the 370MM number and I suspect it was generous with the definition of interaction...here's another source that gives just shy of 70MM - still high enough that what's going on is blowing things way out of proportion. http://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/pbtss11.pdf
And this is totally baffling for someone outside the US where crime rates are lower, people are almost never armed and civil liberties aren't so great. The police seem to be doing an amazing job in the USA overall and rare occurrences are being blown way out of proportion.
https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/lcod/men/2017/all-races-ori...
One of these days the cops could sit on your neck or your child's neck until you pass out and die. Do you want to live in a society where that's tolerated, or can you agree that it's unacceptable for the police to murder people who are being arrested?
Why do you think anyone wants to live in such a society and why do you falsely imply it is tolerated in the USA? The responsible officers for the death of Floyd are already charged - and let's not disingenuously assume a known, violent repeat offender who is obviously on drugs is treated the same as me or you or one of our children.
Who is arguing this? Anywhere? Why are people being treated as though they're trying to excuse murder? That's dehumanizing.
>One of these days the cops could sit on your neck or your child's neck until you pass out and die
This may seem like a trivial dismissal, but one of us has a different approach to parenting, and I suspect it is shared by approximately 50% of the voting population. I would teach my children to cooperate with police under the circumstances in the Floyd video. I would also teach them not to do drugs in public.
No, this is not victim blaming, and I do believe that the force in this case was excessive and unnecessary. But I also advocate for teaching people to function in a society where their actions affect others and can create dangerous situations unnecessarily.
By way of a case study, may I refer you to Robert Jones: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/resources/idt-5ad914e1-afed-4e0d-...