Quote Originally Posted by Wesley Mouch View Post
The leap to murder here isn't really much of a leap. If cops really are gunning down black youths, resistance, civil disobedience and retaliation are appropriate.

The problem is that there is no systemic problem with cops shooting blacks..
I don't agree. There is clearly a systemic problem. You can have a systemic problem without thinking that police in general are overly inclined to shoot black people. The systemic problem is that there isn't adequate accountability when they do. Prosecutors aren't inclined to prosecute, and juries are inclined to give police the benefit of the doubt. And the police themselves have a strong tendency to rally around officers accused of bad behavior, even when it is pretty clear the behavior was not appropriate.

There is also likely a problem with police being disproportionately inclined to see young black men as threats, but we don't even need to go there to see a systemic issue.