re: #28 Renaissance_Man

But thinking the perpetrators are armed is the reason that cops draw weapons and fire on other, darker, people.

The difference isn’t just whiteness, though that’s the most obvious manifestation. It’s mostly that American cops can’t stop thinking of white conservative people as a protected class. This is why crazy white murderers are taken alive. This is why cops try to de-escalate against white perpetrators. This is why white kids with drugs are let go, because they’re ‘good kids’. It’s because the idea of a protected group of people is hard-coded into American law and culture, and cops can’t stop thinking of themselves as occupying troops that are there to protect that group of people and do violence against everyone else.

“Outnumbered 58 to one” just might have something to do with what happened at the Capitol.

And while I agree that the cops do bad things to minorities out of proportion to their numbers, there are hundreds of thousands of people of color (a bad number in itself) in prisons, who, we may assume, the cops didn’t kill. Also too, while some white mass murderers are taken alive, most of them aren’t.