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Originally Posted by Hugh
Have to disagree - if there was a modifier "black lives matter more" or "only black lives matter", you would have a point - but there isn’t.
Saying "All Lives Matter" redirects the attention from black lives, who are the ones in peril - in the USA, black people are twice as likely to be killed by a police officer while unarmed, compared to a white individual - according to a 2015 study, African Americans died at the hands of police at a rate of 7.2 per million, while whites were killed at a rate of 2.9 per million. Saying "Black Lives Matter" isn't equivalent to saying other lives don't, but rather that Black lives should matter as much as others.
A friend of mine sent me this
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If Black people commit more crime, get into more confrontations with police, resist arrest more often and in a more aggressive manner, then obviously they are going to be at more risk. Then again they are more likely to be killed by another Black person, especially gang related crime. Also probably more likely to shoot a police officer. Just because somebody is found to be unarmed, doesn't meant they couldn't have been armed, and didn't behave in a manner suggesting they might be(eg reaching towards their pocket). It only takes seconds to pull a hidden gun and shoot the police officer.
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The County and City of Los Angeles are the “gang capital” of the nation. There are more than 450 active gangs in the City of Los Angeles. Many of these gangs have been in existence for over 50 years. These gangs have a combined membership of over 45,000 individuals.
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Gangs are not a new phenomenon. During the last three years, there were over 16,398 verified violent gang crimes in the City of Los Angeles. These include 491 homicides, nearly 7,047 felony assaults, approximately 5,518 robberies and just under 98 rapes.
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Remember 2 of the officers were not White. If he hadn't resisted and needed to be restrained by multiple officers, then it's possible he would be now sitting at home facing no charges over the counterfeit money.
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He said: "Firstly, these are not just quarrels between kids. These are mass assassinations.
"It takes organisation to get a dozen teenagers to chase someone through a shopping centre and stab that particular individual, get the weapons there and so on.
"It is not going to be solved by more police officers. You'd have to have North Korean levels of police officers on the street to be where these things happen because they're organised.
"Secondly, we have to be honest about who is dying and where. There are two young people dying every week in our city. Almost all of them are black. Almost all of them are being killed by other black youngsters.
"And aside from the killing, there are thousands who are being stabbed and put in hospitals. There's a big thing now about stabbing people in the anus, so they have to wear colostomy bags and humiliating them."
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