Top 5 things to Consider for an Honest Conversation about Race & Policing
2. “Justified” Killings
Going by the reports and public records, an overwhelming majority of the police killings in 2015 could be considered justified. And when I say justified, I’m not just speaking on what law enforcement are allowed to do by the books: I’m also suggesting that any regular individual would be justified if they were the ones shooting the other individual. Of the 990 cases of reported police shootings in 2015, 782 of the victims had deadly weapons. There were attacks in progress in 632 of the 782 cases.
Therefore if one attempted to simply point to 990 people being shot dead by police, they’d be intellectually dishonest to not consider which of those were justified.
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