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A much larger percentage of African Americans are impoverished than whites (for historical and systemic reasons)
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So yes, they commit more crimes across the board
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It does not follow that we don't have a long standing problem with lethal force against blacks in the US given that the deaths are not at all proportional to the discrepancy in crime along with investigations revealing racial motivation time and time again
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well... no. there's data readily available that crunches the numbers and explains the truth behind this "phenomenon" but im not going to derail this thread because that wasn't really the purpose of my initial point. its beating a dead horse at this point anyway.