On Tue, 9 Jun 2020 12:13:57 -0500, Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet wrote:

On 6/8/2020 2:41 PM, dpb wrote:
On 6/8/2020 1:17 PM, Leon wrote:
On 6/8/2020 11:38 AM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
Leon lcb11211@swbelldotnet writes:
On 6/5/2020 6:07 PM, J. Clarke wrote:
On Fri, 5 Jun 2020 16:01:00 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

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Carrying a rubberband gun while black in Southern California is likely
to be fatal.



FWIW for all deaths caused by confrontations with the police, 50% are
white men.

Yet, whites are 76% and blacks 13% of the US population, which indicates
that blacks are several times more likely to be killed by police on
a per-capita basis than whites.


No that is incorrect, they are not more likely.* That statistic only
skews the appearance that blacks are more likely to be killed, which
they are not.
Every case is a new case so the likelihood starts over.* Blacks may be
more likely to be confronted by police, not killed.

I don't have time to look it up, but I'd be pretty certain the
conditional probability of being seriously injured or killed given being
stopped is higher for those of color.

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I thought the same but a Harvard professor of color conducted a study
on this and was surprised that of those killed, when there is an
altercation with a police officer, 50% were white and 26% were black,
IIRC. I have seen this reference stated multiple times and never by a
white person. The media blows this all out of proportion.


"The media blows this all out of proportion."

No, say it ain't so! This MUST be an accident.