I saw a study, and I could be bothered to look it back up if some people are really interested, but it showed that black people were over represented when it came to police using force (hands on, tasers, pepper spray, cuffs for detainment, etc.) and white people were way over represented when it came to being shot.
One theory behind this odd data spread was that blacks are shot less frequent because of the extra force applied early on when coming into contact with police, preventing the situation from escalating into a situation where the officer felt lethal force would be needed. And since the same didn't happen with whites, situations were much more likely to escalate into a situation where the officer felt lethal force would be needed.
Had they tasered Crutcher as he ignored police orders and walked to his vehicle, even though his hands were up, he never would have gotten to the vehicle to place himself in a bad situation. But had that happened, I'd bet most of the people in this thread that instantly, before anything besides a video was shown, deemed the officer a murderer, would still be highly upset the guy was tasered in the first place.
Based on the study I mentioned and the theory behind why the data came out the way it did, perhaps we should reconsider how we look at non-lethal force. Of course its a case by case basis and I'm not advocating that a police officer simply pepper spray you at the start of a traffic stop just because.
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Out of interest, what minor offenses lead to multiple decades (20+ years) in prison here in the states?
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This is what happens when you use selective bias and only focus on the interactions between police and civilians that display brutality. Are you even aware of what you're doing? It'd be no better than showing a string of videos were black lives matter activists are rioting, burning, and assaulting their community.