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You sound like a good man, but there's something you're not considering: The police almost exclusively kill poor people. There are cases of middle-class people of all races being killed, but they're the exception. That's why the racial statistics of poverty and police killings are the same: two times more white people than black are in poverty and are killed by the police. You're statistically as safe as middle-class white Americans.

Which is not as safe as Europeans of any class, of course, which is why we need to demilitarize the police.

https://medium.com/comrade-morlocks-journal/why-blacklivesmatter-should-be-poorlivesmatter-1facc8646e4c

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Will Shetterly
Will Shetterly

Written by Will Shetterly

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