Zac said:
It's not about race. Don't make it about race. It's about cops being corrupt and abusing there power.
This. Though it's important to understand why people take it as being about race...
When you give police officers a quota to meet, they go for the easiest targets. Who's going to be easier, someone who's well off, can defend themselves in court, and has less of a reason to commit crimes? Or someone that comes from a lower income household and whose demographic statistically commits more crimes? The fact that black people are most commonly the demographic I'm referring to is a discussion with its own issues, but it's most commonly the demographic indeed.
Obviously the cops will
tend to go for the latter. Just know that it isn't because the cops are racist, it's because urban black populations have the easiest targets. This, in turn, reflects poorly on all of the black people that don't do anything wrong. When a person has dealt with bad black people in places with high crime rates, that impression carries over to areas with black people that wouldn't dream of doing the same thing - unconciously. People don't realize that gun-related deaths by cops have only decreased this past century; It's not the abundance of these incidents, but rather, the ease with which they can be reported that are resulting in the current state of society. To put it simply, being able to record it with the phone in your pocket and put it on the internet in a span of 5 minutes is not something the average person could do 10 years ago. If it was, I'm certain that this would have already been a trending issue.
So going back to what Zac said - this isn't a case for racism. This is a case to fix the broken police system which garners actions that look a lot like racism (not for that reason, mind you).
