Firstly, I need to correct myself because when I wrote "Did you not read what I wrote?" that was unjust as I was addressing TheUnderdog with the post I was referencing, not you. My apologies for that mistake.
We can add to this fact that when police officers do kill Black people, it's often justified as the Black person has lashed out in his/her resistance of arrest. For example, Rayshard Brooks decided to resist arrest and steal an officer's taser and tried to shoot officers with it. This killing of Rayshard Brooks is 100% justified.
Having a taser doesn't count as 'unarmed', but to be honest, I don't think murder should be the first option when there's several non-lethal places to shoot first and it's literally part of their job to be good at shooting things. I tell you that perceiving someone as 'violent' doesn't warrant ending their life, and you give me an example of someone shooting an officer with a taser. Even if it made sense, you know damn well that's not what I'm talking about.
It's pretty hard to use the "non-lethal" tools when Rayshard has literally stolen your non-lethal taser and fired it at you LOL.
Again, this whole 'oh you're just perceiving that taser shot at you'; 'that's not a real attempt at violence' is just you not understanding the real world. When you're by yourself and immobilized by a taser (which hurts, btw -- that's already violence), and a criminal is your vicinity, do you think good things are about to happen? Sometimes, very clearly, there are REAL threats that can be made against a police officer (firing a taser is absolutely one of them). So, sometimes, this isn't about "perception" or whatever 'everything is subjective' argument you want to make. It's just astonishing that you think having a taser fired at you shouldn't be counted as violence.
I used this example because there were still riots that resulted. This is exactly what you are talking about because people like you went out and rioted over this FALSE narrative that Rayshard was murdered in cold blood by the police, when this was very clearly an instance of a police officer's self-defense.
The killer of George Floyd said it was apart of his training. No officer at the scene stopped him for an insane amount of time despite his pleas.
Philando Castile went out of his way to declare his firearm. It was later said that police are trained to liberally use their firearms.
Jacob Blake was shot 7 times despite not being violent (according to bystanders), not having a weapon, and not doing anything wrong in spite of the fact police could've very easily used a taser and had done so minutes earlier.
When Breonna Taylor was murdered, a policeman blindly shot an assault rifle into the house.
Eric Garner, Elijah McClain, do you want me to keep going? Even if I agree the number is only 48, which you say as though it is anything less than an annual killing spree, which it isn't, I still think that maybe the police could use their non-lethal tools more effectively with regards to unarmed black people when they have tasers capable of completely immobilizing a person and are literally trained for months to do this.
Off the top of my head, George Floyd was unjustly murdered and Breonna Taylor was probably justly killed (just read the Wikipedia page on it).
But we don't need to get into these weeds. Hypothetically, let's just say that all these instances were unjust murders. You've failed to show that:
(A) That all 6 instances of these murders of Black people are due to systemic racism and not just individual racial hatred
(B) That systemic racism effects the other 41 MILLION Black people in America
(C) Therefore, systemic racism exists
These are necessary steps to make the systemic racism argument that you're making. You can't go from 6 Black people may have been killed because of their race, to America is systemically racist in one giant leap. This is why you shouldn't use anecdotes to portray ALL of America.
I could present to you a thousand instances and you'd still tell me it was 'isolated'.
I'm calling your bluff -- show me these "thousand instances" and I will absolutely change my tune.
I'd bet my life savings you won't.
The very system that is supposed to hold them accountable for the actions that disproportionately impact black people to an egregious degree chose not to do so. Not turning on body cams, planting drugs or weapons on people, using excessive force, the list of things that police officers routinely get away with that we make no attempt to persecute them for or enforce rules to prevent these actions goes on, and on, and on.
You need to demonstrate ALL of this, or else these are all bare assertions (logical fallacies).
If you're able to do that, you also need to demonstrate that this is 'systemic racism' and not individual instances of police being corrupt.
Good luck with that lol.
The fact black Americans are more likely to be pulled over, more likely to be harassed, less likely to be listened to by police, more likely to be perceived as violent? Black Americans are put through egregious, inhumane, and horrendous situations for the very crime of their race as the result of failing to keep in check the power of racist police officers. That's what systemic racism is.
It's just baffling that you determine all these claims to be "fact" yet don't provide a shred of evidence to back ANY of the claims.
Do you understand how ridiculous you sound? Do you understand how logically invalid your argument is here?
Congratulations, America! You ended slavery (ignoring how the British did it first) 'worldwide', and yet somehow that manages to be a) completely irrelevant to what I'm saying and b) even more irrelevant because it took you until the 1960s-1970s to acknowledge that black people deserve the same rights. Well done for refuting the thing I said about slavery (which I definitely said and if you ctrl+f you will definitely find me mentioning slavery [sarcasm])
"the system borne from union-busting and slave catching"
I just felt the need to correct you on slandering the US with the 'slavery' charge when the US was the most charitable to slaves AND they helped to end slavery.
There are more options than 1. Let the (potential) criminal run away or 2: Murder them. Police are paid $60,000+ a year to understand that, and yet it seems they choose to forget much more often with blacks than with whites (28% of police killings in 2020 happened to blacks despite the fact they're 13% of the population).
This is a false dichotomy that fails to even come close to addressing the context in which most police shootings happen. Police use discretion and their training to produce WAY more options than your 1 and 2.
For example, we have a police officer here do neither 1 or 2 of your options (points a gun at a robber without firing or letting the robber flee):
https://youtu.be/1mSAuPMCTks?t=30 . We could extract many more examples from this Youtube channel showcasing real footage of real police interactions that show your dichotomy is false.
The fact that more Black people get shot by police isn't proof of "murder". There are confounding variables that you've failed to account for that do explain this disproportion WITHOUT needed to resort to your 'systemic racism' garbage. We have the Rayshard Brooks example where he stole and fired the police officer's taser at them. We also have extensive empirical data analysis which very clearly shows there is no anti-Black bias in police shootings
On Racial Bias in Police Shootings | Ideas and Data (wordpress.com) .