Blacks and Muslims punch above their weight.
Daily Wire: 5 Statistics You Need To Know About Cops Killing Blacks
1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015. According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. The majority of these victims had a gun or “were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force,” according to MacDonald in a speech at Hillsdale College.
Some may argue that these statistics are evidence of racist treatment toward blacks, since whites consist of 62 percent of the population and blacks make up 12 percent of the population. But as MacDonald writes in The Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the population in these counties.
“Such a concentration of criminal violence in minority communities means that officers will be disproportionately confronting armed and often resisting suspects in those communities, raising officers’ own risk of using lethal force,” writes MacDonald.
MacDonald also pointed out in her Hillsdale speech that blacks “commit 75 percent of all shootings, 70 percent of all robberies, and 66 percent of all violent crime” in New York City, even though they consist of 23 percent of the city’s population.
“The black violent crime rate would actually predict that more than 26 percent of police victims would be black,” MacDonald said. “Officer use of force will occur where the police interact most often with violent criminals, armed suspects, and those resisting arrest, and that is in black neighborhoods.”
2. More whites and Hispanics die from police homicides than blacks. According to MacDonald, 12 percent of white and Hispanic homicide deaths were due to police officers, while only four percent of black homicide deaths were the result of police officers.
“If we’re going to have a ‘Lives Matter’ anti-police movement, it would be more appropriately named “White and Hispanic Lives Matter,'” said MacDonald in her Hillsdale speech…
4. Black and Hispanic police officers are more likely to fire a gun at blacks than white officers. This is according to a Department of Justice report in 2015 about the Philadelphia Police Department, and is further confirmed that by a study conducted University of Pennsylvania criminologist Gary Ridgeway in 2015 that determined black cops were 3.3 times more likely to fire a gun than other cops at a crime scene.
5. Blacks are more likely to kill cops than be killed by cops. This is according to FBI data, which also found that 40 percent of cop killers are black. According to MacDonald, the police officer is 18.5 times more likely to be killed by a black than a cop killing an unarmed black person.
Despite the facts, the anti-police rhetoric of Black Lives Matter and their leftist sympathizers have resulted in what MacDonald calls the “Ferguson Effect,” as murders have spiked by 17 percent among the 50 biggest cities in the U.S. as a result of cops being more reluctant to police neighborhoods out of fear of being labeled as racists.
From the Hillary PR Team on Twitter:
* Rage is understandable, but we CANNOT meet the evil of police officers enforcing laws with the evil of shooting police officers from ambush.
* We must recognize that Johnson was not a *real* Black Lives Matter believer, just an extremist who hijacked the movement for his own ends.
* Hey now portraying police as inhuman monsters who routinely thrill kill innocent blacks is NOT the same as condoning violence against them!
* The Hillary PR Team encourages her future voters to perhaps maybe not react QUITE so gleefully to the ambush and murder of police officers.
* Another senseless and random shooting in no way attributable to the wall-to-wall media demonization of white police…
We just had a massacre of cops in Dallas by a black power supporter.
Which Jews supported this murderous organization?
Brian Schaefer writes for Haaretz:
Reexamining the relationship between American Jews and race over the last decades, Haaretz looks at why Jews aren’t visible in the fight for racial justice today.
Two days after that event, three founders of Black Lives Matter were honored at the 25th anniversary celebration of the progressive organization Jews for Racial and Economic Justice. And in August, nearly 200 rabbis joined an NAACP march from Selma, Alabama to Washington, D.C., part of a delegation organized by the Reform movement.
These and other smaller Jewish organizations that focus explicitly on social justice have been early and active allies of the Black Lives Matter movement, which grew in the wake of the deaths of Michael Brown in St. Louis, Eric Garner in New York and Freddie Gray in Baltimore, all unarmed black men who died under suspicious circumstances at the hands of police officers.
But many mainstream Jewish institutions, synagogues and leaders have been slow to support the movement and take significant action. The hesitation reflects a shift in communal priorities over the past half-century, as well as in collective American-Jewish identity.
We just had a massacre of cops in Dallas by a black power supporter.
Which Jews supported this murderous organization?
From the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis:
The Massachusetts Board of Rabbis reaches out in solidarity with African Americans and with all Americans of conscience. We express outrage in response to the recent police killings of black males in our cities, two adults and a child, and deep concern over the failure of grand juries to indict. Grieving with their families, we honor the memories of Michael Brown, of Eric Garner, of twelve-year-old Tamir Rice. We affirm what should be obvious, that black lives matter because all lives matter, each one created in the image of God. We are ashamed as Americans in needing to be reminded of such a basic truth, shaken from complacency to see through the lens of immediate trauma the pernicious effects of racism in the day-to-day lives of fellow citizens.
Sustained by Torah, we draw lessons from its teachings for the times in which we live. We learn of hard-heartedness from Pharaoh, of what it means to divide people into “us and them.” We learn from Pharaoh the arrogance of power and privilege, of hearts and ears that cannot hear a people’s cries for freedom and redress. From our ancestor Jacob, who wrestled in the dark of night, we learn the transformative power of humility, of what it means to step back from who we have been as individuals and as a nation and to embrace another way. Only in stepping back, in turning, in bowing our heads, can we then embrace another, honoring the space in which the other stands, the lives they live.
Filled with horror and heartache, we know as Jews what it is like when courts and police are not there equally for all, coming instead to be feared and avoided. We know what it is like to be marginalized, to be the other within cities we thought to be ours, within nations in which we thought we belonged. We dare not minimize the pain that is felt today by our African American sisters and brothers. We are called to act in solidarity, to act for the sake of justice. Justice, justice shall you pursue is a mitzvah, a holy commandment that is meant to be heeded, not foreclosed upon by grand juries that preclude the pursuit of justice before a court of law.
Amidst the raw pain of grieving people, we acknowledge the danger and challenge that police officers face each day on our behalf and the ideals with which most have come to their calling. We recognize a larger system of racism and stereotyping that affects all of us. Reaching out from heart to heart, we are available as rabbis to offer counsel and comfort to those who serve our communities as police officers. Encouraging new ways of training and response in law enforcement, we also accept mutual responsibility for the reduction of violence in our society, and for bridging divisions among people.
As rabbis, we call on ourselves and on the Jewish community, through our congregations, our communal organizations, and our schools, to act and to educate for a more just and equitable society:
• To express solidarity with African Americans in word and deed
• To participate in interfaith coalitions working for justice and change
• To explore the nature of racism in ourselves and our society, and to work for its eradication
• To call for justice and accountability in law enforcement and the judiciary
• To foster greater cooperation between citizens and police, helping to bring out the best in both
• Not to wait for times of crisis to act
Black lives matter because every life matters. With humility and hope, we reach out in solidarity, seeking the way of change and transformation, of justice for all.
