ACLU Study says Despite Protest, Stay in Place Orders and COVID, Blacks are Still Shot By Cops At the Same Rate [b/c Racists Believe the Murder of Black Males is Necessary for their Genetic Survival]
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From [HERE] Despite stay-at-home orders amid the coronavirus pandemic and months of protests against police brutality, Americans were still shot by police at the same rate in 2020 as in previous years, according to a new American Civil Liberties Union report.
The report, published by the ACLU on Wednesday, shows that from 2015 to 2019, an average of 19.4 fatal police shootings occurred per week in the country over the first half of the year.
Despite the pandemic and months of anti-racism protests, the U.S. had the exact same average number of police shootings per week for the first half of 2020.
As of June 30, police officers had fatally shot 511 people, more than the 484 shot during the same period in 2019.
For the past five years, police have shot nearly 1,000 people per year, totaling at least 5,442 deaths from January 1, 2015, to June 30, 2020.
Demographic breakdowns of the fatalities show police shootings disproportionately impact Black Americans.
Of those shot by police, 24% are Black, though Black people make up about 13% of the U.S. population, and 46% are white, though white people account for 60% of the U.S. population. The report explains
The killing of George Floyd by Minneapolis police officers on May 25, 2020 was horrific, but it was not unusual. People rose up in protest in streets across America not because such brutality was unprecedented, but because police violence — inflicted disproportionately on people of color — is and always has been woven into the daily fabric of American life. Police in the United States kill an obscene number of people every year. The actual number is not known because the data is not tracked, reported, collected, or analyzed in a systematic fashion. At minimum, we know that police kill more than 1,000 people annually.1 Even this conservative figure far exceeds the number of people killed by police in other wealthy countries.2 For perspective, police in America kill people at least three times the rate of their law enforcement counterparts in Canada, a wealthy country with the next highest rate of killing, and at least 16 times the rates of Germany and England.3
The epidemic of police violence has been directly and disproportionately targeted at Black people. Indeed, police have played a primary role in anti-Black violence since their inception as an institution. For example, a sociological study in 1933 of 100 lynchings found that white police officers had participated in at least half of all lynchings, and that in 90 percent of others, law enforcement stood by, complicit in their inaction, as mobs murdered Black people.4 Just as police are more likely to stop, frisk, arrest, and jail Black people than white people,5 they are more likely to shoot and kill Black people. One study found that young unarmed male victims of deadly force by police are 13 times more likely to be Black than white.6 At current levels of risk, Black men face about a one in 1,000 chance of being killed by police over the course of their lives. Stunningly, for young men of color, police use of force is now among the leading causes of death.7 Mirroring the lack of media attention often given to women and nonbinary people of color killed by the police,8 there is a dearth of research examining racial disparities in police killings among nonmale populations. However, some data indicates that although women are less likely than men to be killed by police overall, Black women and Native American/ Indigenous women are more likely to be killed by police than white women.9, 10 Furthermore, while police killings are higher in high-poverty areas than low-poverty areas for all racial groups, Black people who live in more affluent areas are almost as likely to be killed by police as white people who live in the poorest areas.11
The onset of the coronavirus pandemic, during which state governments have issued stay-at-home orders and imposed social distancing requirements, and many police departments have sought to minimize police-initiated contact with the public (by, among other measures, reducing the number of traffic and pedestrian stops),12 would suggest a reduction in police killings. This report examines whether unprecedented societal isolation combined with police departments relaxing routine enforcement corresponds to a decrease in the frequency with which the police fatally shoot people, and whether such force continues to be used disproportionately against Black, Brown, and Native American/ Indigenous people. As detailed in the following results section, we found that despite COVID-19, the rate of fatal police shootings has remained the same nationally. In some states, the rate has even increased. [MORE]
DR FRANCES CRESS WELSING EXPLAINED, “Within the historic framework of Western civilization and culture (the civilization and culture organized to prevent white genetic annihilation), all white peoples have the spoken or unspoken mandate to participate actively in their collective struggle for global white genetic survival. This specifically means, of necessity, the murder and slaughter of Black and other non-white males whenever it is felt within the white collective to be necessary and, therefore, justified.
Because Black males, of all non-white males, have the greatest potential to genetically annihilate the white collective, Black males will experience the greatest ferocity of white supremacy's attack through justifiable homicide. Because Black and other non-white males have the potential to produce white genetic annihilation through the use of their genitalia and because genetic annihilation is the most fundamental fear of the global white collective, this collective (consciously or unconsciously) evolved a "counter" weapon or system of weapons, that theoretically could achieve non-white genetic annihilation.“ [MORE]
