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Why Police Insult Black People More Than White People?

Data shows that police insult black people more. The one thing they don't do more of, disproportionately, somehow, is killed them. If you control for al those things, roland frier has shown through many studies that cops are actually less likely to pull the trigger against a black perpetrator than against a white suspect. A black person who needs help, who reaches out to the police, can be very certain that they will be insulted, much more so than a white person like i wood hat. And we get up ats calling for defunding the police, a view that would harm poor and working class black people more than anybody else. They know this, which is why they don't

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