Look at the question raised by the far left publication below. In the article is the questioned answered?
hue (4,438 posts) http://upload.democraticunderground.com/1251374539
Exactly How Often Do Police Shoot Unarmed Black Men?
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/08/police-shootings-michael-brown-ferguson-black-men
The killing in Ferguson was one of many such cases. Here's what the data reveals.
The killing of Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Missouri, was no anomaly: As we reported yesterday, Brown is one of at least four unarmed black men who died at the hands of police in the last month alone. There are many more cases from years past. As Jeffrey Mittman, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Missouri chapter put it in a statement of condolence to Brown's family, "Unarmed African-American men are shot and killed by police at an alarming rate. This pattern must stop."
But quantifying that pattern is difficult. Federal databases that track police use of force or arrest-related deaths paint only a partial picture. Police department data is scattered and fragmented. No agency appears to track the number of police shootings or killings of unarmed victims in a systematic, comprehensive way.
Here's some of what we do know:
Previous attempts to analyze racial bias in police shootings have arrived at similar conclusions. In 2007, ColorLines and the Chicago Reporter investigated fatal police shootings in 10 major cities, and found that there were a disproportionately high number of African Americans among police shooting victims in every one, particularly in New York, San Diego, and Las Vegas.
More MoJo coverage of the Michael Brown police shooting
Ferguson Is 60 Percent Black. Virtually All Its Cops Are White.
"Hands Up, Don't Shoot:" Peaceful Protests Across the Country Last Night
4 Unarmed Black Men Have Been Killed By Police in the Last Month
A Few Horrifying Pictures From Ferguson Last Night
Anonymous Posts St. Louis Police Dispatch Tapes From Day of Ferguson Shooting
Incredibly Powerful Photo of Black Students at Howard University
The Ferguson Shooting and the Science of Race and Guns
"We need not look for individual racists to say that we have a culture of policing that is really rubbing salt into longstanding racial wounds," NAACP president Cornell Williams Brooks told Mother Jones. It's a culture in which people suspected of minor crimes are met with "overwhelmingly major, often lethal, use of force," he says.
Not questioning if there are more criminal cases with blacks rather than whites in each of the cities listed, Mother Jones sees more blacks killed by police than whites and jumps to the conclusion all cops are racists.
Based on the FBI Stats for 2012, the last complete data we have so far, in that year 12,765 people were killed and listed as homicides [note: suicide is listed as a type of homicide]. 5,855 were black. Of murders, 2,648 were black.( 2,412 were murdered by other blacks)
in 2012, 410 were deemed justifiable homicide by Law Enforcement. (there is no data on race)
agbdf (126 posts)
3. Each case has to be individually reviewed based on the facts
If Brown attacked the officer and tried to take that officer's pistol away from him, as is being suggested, then the officer's use of deadly force is justified. A police officer, by his or her legal authority in all fifty states, does not have to sit helplessly by while a stronger, although unarmed suspect, overpowers that officer.
There is little doubt, based on the store video, that Brown had previously, that same evening, engaged in a strong arm robbery of a store. I believe the toxicology report, when released will reveal that he was on drugs. I have little doubt that he tried to attack the officer and reach for his gun. The repeated use of the term "unarmed" to describe this tragic incident does little to clarify what actually happened. The media has acted very irresponsibly throughout this entire affair.
As to the looters, they seem more motivated by the opportunity to obtain material goods. Some have been opportunistically driving in from miles away to loot stuff.
Star Member Warren Stupidity (38,762 posts)
4. So you showed up here just to post this sort of nonsense? Good luck.
Nonsense in this case being the truth.
bl968 (227 posts)
5. Yes but This works right up till the point that witnesses reported that he raised his hands and the officer kept firing.
The witness being Mr. Johnson- the other person in the video of the store robbery.
Of course- now there are several witness statements caught on tape saying Mr. Brown assaulted the police officer and charged at him.
Like the obvious mole- I await the tox screens. AND the autopsy reports.
