On Mon, 01 Mar 2021 04:30:51 +1100, Bruce > wrote:

>On Sun, 28 Feb 2021 10:20:24 -0500, Gary > wrote:
>
>>On 2/27/2021 1:12 PM, Bruce wrote:
>>> GM wrote:
>>>> "As of the June 22 update, the Washington Post’s 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.
>>
>>Brucers, you're just playing with stastistics.
>>
>>Fact is, in 2019 39 unarmed men were killed by police.
>>25 were white and 14 black.
>>Color makes no difference. All 39 posed a threat to the police.
>
>That's beside the point. GM thought his numbers showed that the police
>don't kill blacks more often than whites. In reality, his data show
>the opposite.


lol.

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