Ugh. "gaslighting." Is there a single more overused (and misused) word in the English language at the moment?

No, it's not gaslighting, it’s data. If you'd read the study, instead of skimming the top three lines, you'd know that it's not referring only to traffic stops but to all encounters with police. The section you looked at was just drawing out a few highlights from the main study and putting them up top.

Yes, we can talk about the many instances of racial disparities in policing. I've said over and over again that there is racial bias in the police force. No serious person would ever deny that. Sentencing disparities, traffic stops, combative behaviour from officers. I'm well aware.

But that's a separate issue that BLM has also largely ignored. And at least they didn't ever claim to be focused on sentencing disparities or fundraise off the back of that issue. Which is why I didn't mention it.

As for me "thinking black men and women should be murdered for not using a signal" (what a stupid thing to say), my point is that Tony Timpa, for example, was killed after calling the police himself. He was off his meds and afraid he might hurt himself or somebody else. He was already restrained when the police arrived, and they still knelt on his back as he suffocated to death. Cracking jokes as he died. No allegations that hadn't been proven. No allegations at all. Just an innocent, mentally ill man who made the mistake of calling on some violent, unaccountable assholes.

This is the problem I'm pointing to. It affects everybody. Black, white, and all shades in between. Everybody should be working together to solve it.