No, as opposed to "Oh, the cops shot a White guy, therefore in a country with huge historical racial problems, in which the FBI released a report in 2006 about the increasing problem of White supremacy in policing, there can't possibly be any racial bias, because all of that magically vanished from the mind and heart of every American in 1964 and now my pale Canadian ass is chapped because people with the same skin color as mine in a completely different country are butthurt!"
And yet the same FBI's stats show that White cops have been responsible for fewer than half of the Black people killed by police over the last 20 years. Which is an interesting stat because White people make up the majority of the nation's police forces. So it's non-White cops who are killing the majority of Black people who are killed by cop.
An independent study done by the University of Pennsylvania also showed that Black cops are 3.3 times more likely to fire their weapon at a suspect than any other race of cop. The study's finding is borne out by DoJ stats.
The stats about the number of police interactions are also skewed. Some jurisdictions, like Chicago, require the police to fill out a report if they interact with a person of colour for
any reason. Even if it's something as benign as pulling someone over to let them know their tail or brake light isn't working. For political haymaking purposes, even those kinds of interactions are counted in the stats.
But let's look at what really got this all started, again. The murder of George Floyd. Now, despite the fact he was a violent career criminal the cops had no right to summarily execute him. But by the same token, BLM and other leftists have turned him into a martyr. Meanwhile the city administration has gone full defund the police.
But that's where it gets interesting. The store where it all began long had a policy of not calling the police over non-violent crimes going on around or in the store. If someone passed a fake note, the owners would eat the sale and simply ban the person from their store. However, the cops noticed the amount of criminal activity and informed the City. The City put pressure on the owners to start calling the cops about non-violent crimes on their property or else they'd lose their business license.
If the City, the same City that is now defunding their cops over the George Floyd incident, hadn't coerced the store owners into calling the cops over non-violent crimes, Floyd would have simply been banned from the store. And you know what the real irony is? It was a Black kid who called the cops. He's an immigrant who now doesn't like the US because he doesn't understand how it works. He did what he thought was the right thing and is now being blamed, in part, for playing a part in Floyd's death. He's also dealing with the guilt that the cops killed a man over funny money and he's the one who called them. But according to the BLM crowd's reaction, his life doesn't matter. He's some kind of race traitor or something I guess.
