RE: Another day: Another black kid killed during a routine traffic stop.

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The issue of class does often supersede the race issue.
Poor people are more desperate, and desperate people do desperate things.

I'm not even sure if anyone is accusing the officer of being racist.
The entire system is racist, and she's just a tiny cog in the broken machine.

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[darth-cryptic]

Well, the OP stated these mistakes don't happen to white people which to me implies racism by the cop making the mistake. I'm pretty sure there have been plenty of racism accusations.

As far as the system itself being racist, how so? What could be done to make it less racist? What explains whites getting shot at twice the rate of Asians on a per capita basis? Systemic racism too?

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As far as the system itself being racist, how so?

That's a really disappointing question.
Kinda like if I was trying to have a conversation about physics and someone was like:
Yeah but how can we be sure 2+2=4?

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The net effects of history’s injustices are staggering. According to statistics the NAACP examined, although black people make up 13.4 percent of the population, they make up 22 percent of fatal police shootings, 47 percent of wrongful conviction exonerations, and 35 percent of individuals executed by the death penalty. African Americans are incarcerated in state prisons at five times the rate of whites. Black men face disproportionately harsh incarceration experiences as compared with prisoners of other races. Racial disparities are also noticeable with black youth, as evidenced by the school-to-prison pipeline and higher rates of incarceration for black juveniles.

This stuff barely scratches the surface.

Multiply by x100 to get an idea of what we are dealing with.