Yea, but endless black men have guns pulled on them, for doing nothing wrong, other than being black. That is Kaps entire point and it's a valid one. You have to be blind and deaf not to realise that.
This is where you get into trouble with your arguments POP. Does this happen to black men, ever? Of course it does. Pretty much every one of us has admitted that there are bad cops and racist cops and incompetent cops out there, and that they deserve the full force of the law to come down on them.
Does it happen to "endless black men"? "For doing nothing wrong, other than being black?" No, it does not. In the vast majority of these highly publicized cases, even though in some of them the cop is also at fault, the guns are pulled either because the person involved has a weapon himself, or he acts irrationally and does not listen to instructions. Instructions such as "put your hands up"..."get your hands where I can see them"..."drop the gun"..."get on the ground"..."stop resisting"...often the person involved is under the influence of something and acts unpredictably. Very rarely if ever have we seen an incident where a cop just walks up to a black man and immediately pulls out their gun without something precipitating it.
I lived in North Philadelphia and Southeast DC where cops interact with black people all day long every day. The people who act normally and rationally do not have a problem with the police. In fact they have quite a friendly relationship with police, or at least they used to. I've even seen police encounter people who were high as **** pissing on the sidewalk and they did not get roughed up or have guns drawn on them as long as they were cooperative.
You keep using individual instances as evidence of some vast systemic problem yet you ignore the tens of thousands of police interactions that go on every day with no one whatsoever being hurt. Traffic stops. Domestic disputes. Shoplifting. Public intoxication. Breaking up fights. Drug busts. etc. etc. etc. Individual instances are evidence of nothing but the fact that no, cops aren't perfect, they aren't all great guys, they aren't all competent, sometimes they overreact, sometimes they are more scared than they should be. Nobody disputes that. Nobody's saying those people's lives don't matter, only that the vast majority of cops who are good should not be impugned by the few who aren't.
Quoting numbers of people who have been shot tells us nothing either, because we don't know the individual circumstances. Sometimes the use of deadly force is 100% appropriate, I would venture to guess it's far more often than not. I think you'd be hard pressed to find a cop who looks forward to the day they get to shoot someone. Most hope they never have to. Again, not saying they don't exist, just saying they are rare.
