Interesting statistics, the percentage of violent crime in the U.S. is equal between black and whites since 2017. During that same time, there have been more whites shot and killed by police officers then blacks every single year.
The argument being made is that blacks make up a smaller % of the population and are then being targeted by police officers, but the percentage of blacks committing violent crimes is far higher, then the percentage of blacks being shot by police officers, according to their population %.
What happened to George Floyd was awful. It brought me to tears as I watched. No man, no color, should ever have to go through that. That police officer should be jailed for the rest of his life, no question. I understood the protests in Minneapolis. I don't understand the death being an excuse to hurt and harm others.
Let me also say, that I am a democrat. I have no doubts some police officers are bad people, and that white privilege does exist. I personally am not a racist person, nor have I ever acted in a racist manner. I do not have a single white friend that is. Not one. I'm trying really really hard to not believe, that what is being pushed right now isn't politically motivated, but I'm struggling with it.
The same media that was telling me to stay home, social distance, now isn't even mentioning that during these protests and riots.
Every day I struggle more and more with our political system, and wonder just how much of what we are fed is absolute bullsh**, in order to have us focus anger on each other, rather than the politicians in charge of our country. All of this makes me sad. All of it.