Fact Check: True.
We dealt with this topic back in
2015
One:
In a year-long study, The Washington Post found that the kind of incidents that have ignited protests in many U.S. communities — most often, white police officers killing unarmed black men — represent less than 4 percent of fatal police shootings.
Two:
The Post’s database shows. In the majority of cases in which police shot and killed a person who had attacked someone with a weapon or brandished a gun, the person who was shot was white. But a hugely disproportionate number — 3 in 5 — of those killed after exhibiting less threatening behavior were black or Hispanic.
Then we go to my piece on
Black on Black crime and you find the NYPD compstat data where:
Blacks are 62% of those arrested for murder and whites are 3%. Not only are blacks committing more crimes in NYC, but they are over an order of magnitude (times 2) more than whites. But there IS NO BLACK ON BLACK CRIME PROBLEM!
And this kind of discrepancy is countrywide. So whites commit far fewer crimes (per capita) and yet are the majority of people shot by police.
So to clarify:
96% of police shootings were of people who were in fact armed.
The majority of cases where a person was armed, shot and killed were white people even though per-capita they commit far less crime than black people do.
So since this has been known since at least 2015, why are various media outlets saying the exact opposite?
Because there is money to be made [currently] by gas lighting white people and selling lies to black people. There are political ends trying to be made as well. They know that if they say 'Trump said [insert something triggering]" that large numbers of people will get outraged and won't check. Then a 2 year old is shot by "protestors" and that news is quickly pushed down the memory hole.
