Steve QJ
1 min readMay 8, 2021

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This is such a meaningless question. I don't know. Neither do you.

But I do know that unarmed people who aren't black are shot by police when they resist arrest; like Trevor Seever or Michael Laduca. I know the police kill restrained people who aren't black by kneeling on them and suffocating them to death; like Tony Timpa and Mario Gonzalez. I do know that the odds of an unarmed black man being shot and killed by a police officer are around the same as the odds of him being struck by lightning (https://www.cincinnati.com/story/opinion/2021/04/16/letters-better-chance-being-struck-lightning-than-killed-police/7226312002/).

You're being fed a narrative by the news and it's very largely untrue. I'm not denying racism. I'm not denying that the police treat black people worse than they do white people. But most people have a completely warped view of the truth from what they see on the news.

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Steve QJ
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