Some important points to consider:

First, no one actually has the national data. The research cited at least acknowledges that.

Second, the author implies some sort of conspiracy theory wherein the Center for Policing Equity has buried the truth deep in their study, hahaha! 1/ https://twitter.com/drantbradley/status/1285196569072087041
2/ (I just thought that was pretty funny.)

Third, it is an overwhelmingly acknowledged fact, even if the presumed national data is way off, that Black people are killed by police at a much higher rate. The way this article and the WSJ article attempt to deal with this is clear
3/ fact is by comparing "crimes committed" vs. police shootings, by race.

The first failure here is assuming that police shootings exclusively, or even predominately correlate with policing violent crime. Obviously, this wasn’t even the case in the most well-known police
4/ shootings we’ve seen. It may seem a natural assumption, but it is just not true.

Second, and more importantly, IF there is systemic racism in policing, leading to the disproportionate shooting of Black people, IT WOULDN'T SUDDENLY and EXCLUSIVELY MANIFEST AT THE POINT OF
5/ THE POLICE SHOOTING anyhow; it would already be a feature of who is policed, nature and number of police/citizen encounters, the nature and number of specific crimes pursued by community and prosecutorial emphasis, then the results of the crappy plea bargaining system, cases
6/ prosecutors decide to advance, jury selection, absurd evidential decisions, etc., all leading to the sheer number of overpoliced community members on parole, policing poverty rather than remediating poverty, etc., such that every even minor infraction creates more contact,
7/ etc., etc. Easy to go on and on.

In short, if there were a systemic problem of racism leading to disproportionate police shootings, we would first see it in the total number of registered "crimes committed," overall number police/citizen contacts, and ultimately the overall
8/ number of those deemed "criminal," by race. ALL of which we do in fact see!

As such, the ENTIRE premise of the statistical comparisons being cited is really just grift for those, who for whatever reason, want to deny the problem or even blame Black people themselves for the
9/ disproportionate amount of shootings—supposed Black pathology and all that nonsense.

One more time, to be 100% clear: if there is systemic racism in policing leading to the disproportionate shooting of Black Americans, it wouldn't just suddenly and exclusively appear when the
10/ "trigger" is pulled, but in the very supposed statistical data ("crimes committed by x") which furnished the comparison, and thereby comparable rates, to begin with. It's simple.

In the end, if the point of the piece is to ignore the simple fact that Black people are killed
11/ by police at a much greater rate (which no one disagrees with), by arguing that it is because Black people commit more violent crime, then the piece has simply failed to do that, for the reasons given above. Further, if the point of the piece was to suggest that systemic
12/ racism is not a predominating factor in the problem of police shooting, it has also failed to do this, by assuming it would exclusively manifest at the point of the trigger pull and nowhere else in the tremendous systemic web that got both parties to that point of contact.
13/13 So why share such low level opinion pieces, in this case, manifestly intended to support Donald Trump's racist ignorance?
That last "is" in tweet #2 is a very confusing typo. Let your mind delete it as you read, hahaha.
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