For every black victim of the police, there are equivalent white victims

Antiracists believe police abuse is based on race, but the statistics show it is based on class: almost everyone killed by the police in the US is poor, and police killings are racially proportionate to US poverty: 1/4 are black, 1/4 are Hispanic, and half are white. Many black victims of the police are well known today, but white victims are quickly forgotten. This is convenient for the police—it makes the problem of police militarization look much smaller than it actually is.