The data does not show this... every year the percentage of
unarmed black men killed by the police is less than
1% of the total black men killed in the same year. Take the report by the Center for Disease Control and Prevention where the data is obtained from death certificates. For the
year of 2013, a total of 6,937 black men were murdered (table 12, page 52). That's
55% percent of the male victims of murder in that particular year and about
43% of all murder victims in that year, even though black men are only about 14% of the male population and about
6% or
7% of the entire population. You can see in that same report that for that year law enforcement killed 142 black men bringing the total number to 7,079. Hence law enforcement killed
2% of all the black men killed that year. Police kill mostly criminals. Now, I could not find how many of these were unarmed for 2013 but there is some information for
2015 where 12% were either unarmed or unknown situation. Using this you'd get 12% of 2%, that is
0.24%. Put it this way, the majority of people killed by the police are killed for a reason (they was doing shyt) but even if all those black men in 2013 were somehow good innocent law abiding citizens who were hunted by racist white cops (pretend that black cops don't kill black men), still 2%. Even if you were to double or treble that (for argument's sake), it would amount to no more than 4% and 6%.
Reports from other
years show similar trends. Reports form other agencies (Bureau of justice Statistics, FBI) show similar trends (I'll pull them up at some point). Black men have been killed by other black men at a
consistent rate of around 90% (page 13). And you might say that people are likely to be killed by individuals of the same race: yes that's true, but black men are victimized by other black men at far far higher rates than other groups.
It is true that though a greater number of white men are killed by the police in total, per capita black men are killed about 3 times more. However this is to be expected since black men commit violent crime at far higher rates than whites (more than 3 times) and far far higher rates than say Asian men (asian men have very little run-ins with the law).
Of the 319 people killed in Chicago alone this year (already more than the total number of black men and women that the police will kill nationwide during the whole year) many are children (can someone find the actual number, I saw it before but I cannot remember the article). If white people must answer for the killings and brutalization of unarmed or innocent black men by police, shouldn't black people have to answer for the more numerous killings of black children and the immense brutalization that both black males and females suffer at the hand of black men.
Black lives only seem to matter when they can be leveraged as ammunition against whites. I have hear so often how it's open season on black men... I agree. However, guess who's doing the hunting...
