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Black Lives Matter? Statistics Show That They Do.....
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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 2261236" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/opinion/rudy-giulianis-racial-myths.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region" target="_blank">Rudy Giuliani's Racial Myths...</a></p><p></p><p>..."<em>Mr. Giuliani’s garbled, fictional statistic echoes a common right-wing talking point about the prevalence of “black on black” violence in America. Homicide data do show that black victims are most often killed by black assailants. (They also reveal that whites tend to be killed by whites.) This observation does not speak to the matter of racist policing and police brutality. Killings of the police have, mercifully, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/09/police-are-safer-under-obama-than-they-have-been-in-decades/" target="_blank">been on the decline</a> during the Obama presidency. But unwarranted shootings by police officers remain a persistent problem, ignored for generations, exploding only now into the wider public consciousness because of bystander videos that reveal the blood-red truth</em>..."</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="BrownArmy, post: 2261236, member: 18225"] [URL='http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/12/opinion/rudy-giulianis-racial-myths.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region®ion=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region']Rudy Giuliani's Racial Myths...[/URL] ..."[I]Mr. Giuliani’s garbled, fictional statistic echoes a common right-wing talking point about the prevalence of “black on black” violence in America. Homicide data do show that black victims are most often killed by black assailants. (They also reveal that whites tend to be killed by whites.) This observation does not speak to the matter of racist policing and police brutality. Killings of the police have, mercifully, [URL='https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/09/police-are-safer-under-obama-than-they-have-been-in-decades/']been on the decline[/URL] during the Obama presidency. But unwarranted shootings by police officers remain a persistent problem, ignored for generations, exploding only now into the wider public consciousness because of bystander videos that reveal the blood-red truth[/I]..." [/QUOTE]
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