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kleinbl00  ·  1984 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Good guys with guns kill good guy with gun

You disagree that there's complexity?

I said, explicitly, that "racism is a problem." What you're saying, in as many words, is that racism is the only problem. We can find data for that. Here's the incidence of police shootings in the USA by year:

Here's the incidence of hate crimes:

If it were "just" racism, you'd expect to see an uptick in racist violence by people other than cops. But there's no correlation.

So. Did a black man get shot because a cop was itchin' for an excuse to shoot black people? Maybe. We don't know. We might find out. It's certainly happened in the past. Did a black man get shot because it's easy to panic when you're charging into an active situation? Maybe. We might find out. It's certainly happened in the past.

And it's probable that he got shot for more than "just" one reason.