Sentences with phrase «police than white people»
The authors wrote that there has been scant public health empirical research to understand why black people are more likely to be killed by police than white people.
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«I don't want to get too political, but police officers in this city react much differently to a group of black people than they do to a bunch of white kids,» he says.
«It is a story of muddle - headed government initiatives, skewed police incentives, racism, drug wars and the old, old habit of treating white people more leniently than everyone else.»
Note also that «white privilege» doesn't mean that no white person has ever been mistreated by police, or that no black person has ever been treated well, it just means (on this subject) that in general, white American have a different relationship with law enforcement than black Americans do.
The rally tonight, which lasted several hours and never seemed to attract more than 50 people at a time, was relatively subdued, a stark contrast to the violent protests that roiled Ferguson last week after a Missouri grand jury voted not to indict a white police officer for shooting to death the 18 - year - old Brown.
Black people who took the online test may have assumed Black men were bigger and stronger, but they did not think those men were any more harmful or deserving of police force than the white men.
Directed by Joe Roth, Freedomland is a thriller starring Samuel L. Jackson and Julianne Moore, about a woman whose young son is kidnapped as she drives through a predominantly black neighbourhood, and the extreme unrest that is generated when the predominantly white police spend far more resources trying to solve the case than they ever spend on crimes in which black people are the victims.