With another round of BLM riots kicking off, just keep it in perspective that the odds of an unarmed black person being unjustly killed by police is now down to roughly 1 in 100,000
Over the course of a *lifetime*
Over the course of a *lifetime*
To put it in perspective, the number of unarmed black people killed in bad police shootings each year is the same as the number of Americans killed by snakes (5)
More perspective: if you're a white South African farmer, you have a 10% chance of being murdered in your lifetime
More perspective: if you're a white South African farmer, you have a 10% chance of being murdered in your lifetime
You know how people use the phrase "struck by lightning" as paraphrase for "something that basically never happens"
According to weather.gov, an unarmed black person is exactly as likely to be killed by a lightning strike as they are by police.
According to weather.gov, an unarmed black person is exactly as likely to be killed by a lightning strike as they are by police.
In terms of innocent black lives lost at the hands of police, it's now impossible to "do better"
Those deaths are already down as far as they can go when humans are involved, at the level of a freakish natural event, one that a local town would talk about for two generations
Those deaths are already down as far as they can go when humans are involved, at the level of a freakish natural event, one that a local town would talk about for two generations
Yet "struck dead by lightning" is the core justification for overturning our entire criminal justice system—and by extension our entire socio-economic system
Progressivism isn't a movement of "science" or facts. It's pure emotional manipulation. That's exactly why it works
Progressivism isn't a movement of "science" or facts. It's pure emotional manipulation. That's exactly why it works
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