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Over 30 people have been killed by the rioters not the police during these violent riots,

I haven't heard this. Do you have a source?

Wikipedia has a partial list here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violence_and_controversies_d...

That list includes deaths caused by law enforcement and death of rioters killed by people trying to protect themselves from the rioters as well. There are some additional deaths by the rioters that are not in the list though but that does provide a decent synopsis of some of the deaths.

Police kill 1000 people in USA every year.

That’s not a useful or relevant statistic and you know it.

Perhaps the statistic that 40% of cops are domestic abusers is relevant to you.

https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2014/09/police-...

Rioters committing murder is not related to cops committing domestic abuse.

It’s not, because it was debunked ages ago.

I'm just trying to put GP's dubious numbers in their proper context. Of those 1000, how many would you estimate are killed without reasonable cause? Could it be 30? 300? 970? We shouldn't turn off our brains just because somebody said someone died. USA society is fine with the carnage on the highway and throughout the Middle East; I think we can deal with a tiny amount of carnage in order to improve.

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