THREAD: Black people are not being disproportionately killed by police. Let’s talk facts!

In 2015, Cops killed twice as many whites as they did blacks. 50% killed in police involved shootings were white while 26% were black. A majority of these victims were armed.
12 percent of white and Hispanic homicide deaths were due to police officers, while only four percent of black homicide deaths were the result of police officers. Cops aren’t overwhelmingly killing black people. It’s a false narrative used for political gain.
Black people are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. This is according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black. A police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black person than a cop killing an unarmed black person.
Murders have spiked by 17 percent among the 50 biggest cities in the U.S. as a result of cops being more reluctant to police neighborhoods out of fear of being labeled as racists.
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