Comments by "Jim Werther" (@jimwerther) on "Triple homicide suspect threatens judge in court" video.
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Tony Timpa and Daniel Shaver were white guys who were killed by incompetent, overaggressive police officers. Justine Damond was a white woman, unarmed and in pajamas, who was blown away by a black cop near where Derek Chauvin kneeled on George Floyd's neck for nine minutes. Yet George Floyd became a household name worldwide, but no one in the US can tell you who Justine Damond was. Why? Media attention.
Just because the two parties are different races doesn't mean the incident must be racial. In fact, the Derek Chauvin prosecutor explicitly said at trial that he had no evidence saying that his case was about race. The media, though, likes to run with stories that fit their narrative, ignoring the actual facts in the process.
There are 800,000 police officers in the US, so it is unsurprising that some are going to be lousy. What is surprising is how infrequently innocents die by cop - it is statistically a very rare event. Contrast with deaths by medical error, which is reported to be north of 250,000 a year in the US.
The statistics show that unarmed black people are killed by cops at a rate far lower than are unarmed whites. But the mainstream media conveniently ignores that fact.
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