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Fox Guest Argues That African Americans Are Treated Better Than Whites By Police

Posted by Ellen -7859.80pc on April 11, 2015 · Flag

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On The O’Reilly Factor, host Eric Bolling and guest Horace Cooper didn’t just deny that the killing of Walter Scott is part of a pattern of police shootings of black men, they actually argued that African Americans are “favored” when they have encounters with the police. 

Substitute host Bolling sneered at the beginning of the segment that “the far left” is using Scott’s death “as evidence that police killings of black men are a systemic problem in America.” Bolling falsely claimed, “Police killings of African Americans are down 70% over the last 50 years, so why perpetrate these claims?”

But as Bolling should know, there are no hard statistics on the number of police killings in the past 50 years. However, we do know that blacks make up a disproportionate number of those whom we know are killed by the police. So why did Bolling perpetrate such a claim?

“Blacks are incarcerated at a rate of six to seven times that of whites in America. And unarmed blacks are being killed about the same rate as whites in America,” Bolling continued. Therefore, he concluded, “Whites are being shot at a higher incident rate.”

That set off guest Horace Cooper, of Project 21, who served as what I call the designated African American black attacker role on Fox.

COOPER: In the black community, we need to have a conversation that’s unemcumbered by the radical left and progressives’ agenda that tries to use government coercion to address some problems. Here’s the reality: black Americans, like myself, we have an elevated risk of death that will come – not from law enforcement but that will come from other black Americans.

…According to the CDC, the second most likely contributor to that disparity is homicide. There is no other ethnic group that homicide ranks as high and the statistics actually show it’s black people killing other black people. …If no other ethnic group faces this risk, it is a sign that there’s a disparate amount of criminality happening in this one group.

…The truth is, as Eric has been explaining, if you consider the elevated number of times that black Americans encounter law enforcement versus the actual number of deaths, it turns out that black people are not actually at risk, they’re actually in a favored category.

Watch it below, with Alan Colmes, the other guest, doing a terrific job pushing back in a "fair and balanced" two-against-one discussion.

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mj - the same one commented 2015-04-11 18:12:34 -0400 · Flag
@truman: “It must be a great comfort to the parents of Michael Brown and Walter Scott to know that their sons were “favored” by the white police right up to the moment they were executed.”

Not to mention the parents/families of Tamir Rice, Akai Gurley, Rumain Brisbon, etc. . .

Unarmed People of Color Killed by Police, 1999-2014

On Wednesday, after the announcement that NYPD Officer Daniel Pantaleo would not be indicted for killing Eric Garner, the NAACP’s Legal Defense Fund Twitter posted a series of tweets naming 76 men and women who were killed in police custody since the 1999 death of Amadou Diallo in New York. Starting with the most recent death, what follows are more detailed accounts of many of those included in the Legal Defense Fund’s tweets.

http://gawker.com/unarmed-people-of-color-killed-by-police-1999-2014-1666672349

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Steve St John commented 2015-04-11 16:51:22 -0400 · Flag
Here we go with the “far left” and the “radical left” again.

For those not in the know, that would be anybody to the left of Bill O’Reilly.
marco commented 2015-04-11 12:29:29 -0400 · Flag
Cop lynchings and killings of blacks probably is down the last 50 years, the civil rights act happened 51 years ago. Todays police still have motivation to bypass the laws. Legal seizure of property from alleged or staged crimes is easier to exploit through targeting blacks. Politics and paid off officials have turned the time clock back 52 years. A small proportion of cops are equivalent to hired mercenaries. A small proportion need to act in self defence. And a small proportion of cops are ever held accountable.
john howard commented 2015-04-11 11:24:26 -0400 · Flag
WOW!!!! Some people will say anything to be love by the KKK on FAUX NEWS
truman commented 2015-04-11 09:32:14 -0400 · Flag
It must be a great comfort to the parents of Michael Brown and Walter Scott to know that their sons were “favored” by the white police right up to the moment they were executed.
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Un-friggin'-believable.








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