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Default Tomatoes - faulty measurements?

On Sat, 27 Feb 2021 07:52:58 -0800 (PST), GM
> wrote:

>Gary wrote:
>> On 2/26/2021 7:02 PM, Bruce wrote:


>> > Back to the original point before we disappear into the sunset: do you
>> > think the police would have opened fire if the crowd had been black?

>> Probably not. Police didn't open fire in all the "black lives matter"
>> protests that turned into riots.
>>
>> Saw a statistic on the news the other day. Highest rate of gun deaths is
>> among young blacks under age 30. DUH! It's been that way for years.
>>
>> The few 'death by police' incidents were mostly all criminals that
>> didn't yield to the cops. Very stupid of the suspects and very unfair
>> to the police for defending themselves.
>>
>> Police lives matter too.

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>"As of the June 22 update, the Washington Posts database of fatal police shootings showed 14 unarmed Black victims and 25 unarmed white victims in 2019..."


GM's another one who doesn't understand the concept of 'per capita'.
Blacks are 13% of the population. If there were 25 unarmed white
victims, there should be 13% of that in black victims to be even. That
would be 3.25, not 14.

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