Seriously, did you REALLY just say

That reads like an Al Sharpton statement—except he defends dead people, not their slayers.It is even more jarring on the heels of THIS:

No, it is not at all similar:

1) People choose to be cops, are taught how and act accordingly; no one chooses to be black, and it requires no training nor behavior.

2) Many cops and a few entire forces have done and do bad things, for which their chosen profession grants unaccountability no black persons race similarly grants.

3) No whole chapters of black organizations have a POLICY of training all member in criminality and encouraging them to perform it.

4) When blacks are accused of a crime investigating authority is not restricted to OTHER blacks consequently inclined to exonerate their brothers whether or not justified.

That does not make ALL cops complicit any more than equally criminal acts by some blacks implicate all blacks, but cops who ARE guilty deserve no more impunity and no less accountability than guilty blacks or any other guilty party.

The COMPETITION is as you wrongly describe, yes, but that is why MAKING it a competition is so wrong: Every unarmed person cops shoot is ignored unless the victim is black; each and every one of THOSE shootings immediately becomes a media sensation because the usual suspects (pardon the pun) form into the usual camps, with one side automatically defending cops because the fact some blacks are criminals convinces them all are, and the other automatically defending cops because the fact some cops are criminals convinces them all are. The thing is, when police (or anyone) shoot an unarmed person, the victims RACE is irrelevant—or SHOULD be.

Throughout this thread you have employed so little logic and reason, actively DEFIED both so much, it made Cannolis arguments read like the voice of moderate compromise, and he is not exactly the most agreeably compromising sort. I am not calling you a racist at all, but if you insist on shoehorning police brutality back into racial identity politics each and every time I try to pull it back into the nonpartisan public safety realm where it belongs, well... if the hood fits, wear it....