That is a bit convoluted, and it doesn’t really work that way. What analyses do robustly demonstrate is that living in impoverished conditions significantly contributes to engaging in criminal behavior. After you account for this, racial status no longer contributes any explanation for violent behavior.
However, even after accounting for SES-related factors explaining behavior, there still remains disproportionate minority contact, arrest, and sentencing. In fact, the decision making process at nearly every point (diversion, probation, etc) yields evidence of racial bias.
Let’s remember that Steophan also doesn’t think it’s inherently racist to say “Blacks are subhuman” - he has no fucking leg to stand on when it comes to defining racism.
But I can just see some random redneck with a confederate flag t shirt laughing at the Liberal McEnlightened family getting pissed because they can’t get through the “right door”.
I see no good reason why we could not believe that Steophan has frank and candid discussions with his black friends, which promote mutual understanding by clarifying the issues he has in dealing with the less evolved humanoid types. Those few who are capable of such understanding are no doubt impressed by the clarity of his thinking as well as his shrewd and perceptive insights.
Let’s just go ahead and skip the next six months of this circus and get to the part where they’re acquitted because that’s what happens every time a cop is indicted on trumped-up political charges in order to appease the mob.
As has been seen multiple times in this thread and others, Smapti is utterly incapable of distinguishing fact from his own fecal matter when it comes to anything relating to law enforcement.
And when it doesn’t, I’m sure everyone crying for the blood of those cops will take a calm step back, acknowledge that the legal process has done its job, and move on with their lives.
You know, exactly like they didn’t with Darren Wilson, Zimmerman, and the cops in the Garner and Rodney King matters.
No, in fact it is not at all clear why Gray was arrested at all. He had a knife which was legal for him to have. But it appears that he hadn’t committed any crime.
Had he been allowed to go about his business, he wouldn’t be dead, and there wouldn’t be a ‘lawless horde’ demanding the government do anything.
How is it not clear? He observed some policemen who were minding their own business and decided to freak out and run away from them. That’s probable cause.
It isn’t. US Supreme Court ruled that fleeing in a high crime area at the sight of police is enough to create reasonable suspicion. Reasonable suspicion was enough to detain Gray - that is when they discovered the knife. Up to here everything is legal. But to arrest him they needed probable cause and according to the prosecutor, at least, the knife they arrested him for was legal to carry.
Was it more sensical before the edit? It could hardly have been less.