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US police are the 6th leading cause of African American deaths. I watched an HK detainee get tortured in a hospital in horror, then remembered we kill thousand
by roboys 7y ago
US police are the 6th leading cause of African American deaths.
I watched an HK detainee get tortured in a hospital in horror, then remembered we kill thousands of unarmed people every couple years without any trial (many of whom are innocent) and 50-60% of victims are either mentally or physically disabled in some way. Many of them get tortured in similar ways if they make it to prison.
In a different framing, the US looks pretty horrible in comparison to China. It's just that we have gotten used to our own brand of stink.
- whatshisface 7y agoYou don't think Chinese police have brutality incidents?
- BurningFrog 7y agoGeneral apolitical point: Phrases like "6th leading cause" contain no information. Is that 5% or 0.01%? There is no way of knowing, and depends entirely on how deaths are categorized in some unknown underlying classification system.
- lunchables 7y ago>US police are the 6th leading cause of African American deaths. No it's not. https://www.statista.com/statistics/233310/distribution-of-the-10-leading-causes-of-death-among-african-americans/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/233310/distribution-of-t... Only 215 black people were killed by police last year. >https://www.theroot.com/here-s-how-many-people-police-killed-in-2018-1831469528 https://www.theroot.com/here-s-how-many-people-police-killed...