RE: Culture and Race are not the same thing: Could it be culture that is the cause for elevated police encounter fatalities rather than race? Is BLM aiming for the wrong causation?

[theblindsquirl]

I think there's another aspect to this that you may have missed.

That would be the definite militarization of the police.

No longer "peace officers", at some point they became "law enforcement" and that drives a wedge between communities and the people who used to be there to "protect & serve". There is a definite us versus them mentality that pervades law enforcement.

I don't think it's an accident.