Yet again tweeting in such a way to obscures the full context of the statistics. 45 unarmed deaths, out of 1,022 “armed” deaths, a designation that doesn’t actually say much about the circumstances of each shooting.
To use a prominent example, Philando Castile was “armed” when he was shot and killed. To say this absent the context of the shooting is to suggest he was in the midst of criminal activity.
Even if every “armed” shooting were of a person committing a crime with a gun (they’re not), it is still a problem that police are killing 1,000 people a year.
And I made a mistake up top, that’s 45 unarmed deaths out of 1,022 total deaths.
