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Black man killed by police in Minneapolis

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Agent47

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Of the 1,146 and 1,092 victims of police violence in 2015 and 2016, respectively, the authors found 52 percent were white, 26 percent were black, and 17 percent were Hispanic. Together, these individuals lost 57,375 years to police violence in 2015 and 54,754 to police violence in 2016. Young people and people of color were disproportionately affected: 52 percent of all the years of life lost were lost by nonwhite, non-Hispanic ethnic groups. Whites also tended to be killed by police at older ages than African Americans and Hispanics—though this is partly because in the general population, whites are older on average than the other groups.

In One Year, 57,375 Years of Life Were Lost to Police Violence

In soccer we call this an own-goal.



The study findings echo those from past journalistic investigations. Washington Post analyses from the past several years show that black males are shot by police at disproportionately high rates. According to several different studies, black men aged 15–34 are between nine and 16 times more likely to be killed by police than other people. In 2017, police killed 19 unarmed black males, down from 36 in 2015, according to The Washington Post. The Post analyses also showed that police usually use fatal force against people armed with knives or guns. (The FBI counted 435 “justifiable homicides” by police officers in 2016, and in 429 of the cases, the person had a firearm when killed.) But unarmed victims of police shootings are also more likely to be minorities, according to FBI statistics.)
 

Calminian

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Does make one wonder if that was a white man if would have had same force used though!

There's no way of knowing. Is it possible? Sure. I think it's certain it was a hateful act. Perhaps something about this man bothered him. He may have challenged the officer's pride in some way. Loose-cannons can go off for a variety of reasons.
 

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There's no way of knowing. Is it possible? Sure. I think it's certain it was a hateful act. Perhaps something about this man bothered him. He may have challenged the officer's pride in some way. Loose-cannons can go off for a variety of reasons.

Do you know of any similar ‘hateful act’ involving a white cop and a white suspect?
 

Sai

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Minnesota’s Attorney General
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InTheLight

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Please don't make me defend Amy Klobuchar. But if you insist on quoting the GatewayPundit I guess someone has to correct Fake News. Might as well be me.

In 2006, Chauvin was one of six officers from the Third Precinct who responded to a stabbing at a Minneapolis home. Police said Wayne Reyes stabbed his friend and his girlfriend and then threatened to kill all of them with a shotgun.

Police pursued Reyes, who fled in his truck. He got out of the vehicle with a shotgun, and "several officers fired multiple shots," killing Reyes, police said in a report. It was unclear during the initial investigation which officers fired their weapons and whether Reyes had made any verbal or physical threats.

Minneapolis police officer at center of George Floyd's death had history of complaints


In 2006, Chauvin was one of several officers involved in the shooting death of a man who stabbed others before turning on the police.

Although Klobuchar was the Hennepin county attorney at the time of an October 2006 police shooting involving Chauvin, she did not prosecute and instead the case went to a grand jury that declined to charge the officers with wrongdoing in 2008.
George Floyd killing: two officers involved previously reviewed for use of force


Notice that Chauvin "was one of six cops involved" in the shooting death of a man who had stabbed two people and then turned a shotgun on police. Can you understand why Klobuchar didn't prosecute him? A grand jury subsequently failed to indict Chauvin which is amazing because the bar for grand juries indicting people is pretty low.
I would also point out that this previous incident with Chauvin occurred in October 2006. Klobuchar was running for US Senate at the time, would win and take office on January 3, 2007. Thus, she would not have been able to prosecute Chauvin.

But these facts don't hinder GatewayPundit from publishing Fake News.

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