Your attempts to excuse the murder of unarmed people cannot explain why the police choose to kill black men and boys at such high rates. Dark skinned people in America are not more armed than pink skinned ones.
These numbers are “conservative,” and many killings likely go unreported, researchers said in this recent study.
www.pbs.org
The killing of George Floyd has triggered nationwide protests in the US. But they also reflect larger frustrations with policing and the disproportionate number of African Americans killed by officers.
www.dw.com
About 1 in 1,000 black men and boys in America can expect to die at the hands of police. That risk is 2.5 times higher than for white men, new research shows.
www.latimes.com
Also we have seen enough evidence of totally wild and unjustifiable escalations and use of force. When the police do this, they cannot then go and claim they were in fear.
Most of these interactions, in any civilised country, the police politely take ask for your ID and you get a fine in the mail if you need to be fined. Here they handcuff you, strip you naked, four of them sit on your neck - and we then get to hear cockamamie stories about the police being in fear.
No it's just murder as a professional sport.