I always look forward to your posts, FWIW. There appear to be several groups... protestors... hardcore BLM Marxists... and Anarchists / Antifa, hijacking some protests and taking them up another notch.
We've made substantial progress reducing police violence, this is a fact. But there is still a huge amount of violent crime in cities like Chicago, a large majority of it black-on-black. From what I have read, unprovoked white-officer-on-black-citizen violence is extremely rare. You make good points on one side, but there are other overwhelming facts.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of emotion and half truths, but not many facts. A few from a former Investor's Business Daily writer and author.
Writer Paul Sperry, @paulsperry_
Jun 1: "FACT: In 2019, 9 blacks, 19 whites, and 6 Hispanics were unarmed when killed by police in U.S. In 2015, by comparison, 38 blacks, 32 whites, and 19 Hispanics were unarmed when killed by police." "
June 4: " 2018, the latest year for which such data have been published, African-Americans made up 53% of known homicide offenders in the U.S. and commit about 60% of robberies, though they are 13% of the population."
June 4: "NEW STUDY: "We find no evidence of anti-Black or anti-Hispanic disparities across shootings, and White officers are not more likely to shoot minority civilians than non-White officers. Instead, race-specific crime strongly predicts civilian race." "
June 4: "Recent studies show blacks are 4X as likely to resist a police officer than whites (based on RDO charges filed). This is the crux of the problem, not racism. Anyone who's watched "Cops" or "Live PD" knows what happens to white perps who resist: They get slammed to the ground, too."
June 4: "Activists demanding a "national conversation" on alleged "systemic racism" in policing don't want to talk about this horrifying statistic:
"A police officer is 18½ times more likely to be killed by a black male than an unarmed black male is to be killed by a police officer."
Sperry points out, like Dr. Thomas Sowell and others before, that LBJs "War on Poverty" arguably destroyed the black nuclear family.
Sperry also points out that there are reportedly 885,000 African American Millionaires.