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[QUOTE="slidingdown, post: 1118985, member: 1054"]
Thank you for your service. That cannot have been easy. I'm sure you have some fantastic stories to tell, and I for one would very much love to hear them. Perhaps another thread, though.

An unarmed man was killed by a police officer, with what looks to an unbiased eye with excessive and unnecessary force (multiple bullets).
The police force in question is statistically much, much whiter than the population it polices (population: two-thirds African American, one-third Caucasian; police force: 50 Caucasian officers, 3 African-American). The only crime stat with racial divides I could find through google was for traffic stops: 86% of stops and 92% of searches were performed on cars driven by African Americans, despite the fact that cars driven by Caucasians are more likely (when searched) to actually have contraband (stats cribbed from The Atlantic).

I bring this up only to say you seem pretty sure this was [I]not[/I] racially motivated. What I see is a police force with a statistical history of targeting minorities (at least in terms of traffic stops), and now some unnecessary violence. Can you tell us what it is about this situation that makes you so convinced that racial motives are absent?
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