Facts in perspective are largely missing from reporting on cop killings

Power Line:

Daniel Horowitz writes:

The act of the officer who placed his knee on George Floyd’s neck for several minutes after he was completely neutralized and couldn’t move is obviously indefensible. As with every criminal act that leads to murder, he should be punished to the fullest extent of the law.

But why is it we never heard on the news about the endless trend of cop ambushes and executions at the hands of violent criminals in recent months? Why do we never hear about the cases where cops engage in near-suicidal restraint to go the extra mile to defuse a situation?

Consider the following: According to the Washington Post’s database on police shootings, 17 unarmed African-Americans were killed by police in 2018. Let’s just assume the unlikely assumption that all 17 were unjustified in the mold of the choking death of George Floyd. That accounts for just 0.002% [note: actually 0.2%] of the 7,407 black homicide victims that year, according to the FBI’s Uniform Crime Report, the overwhelming majority of whom were killed by black criminals, not white criminals or police. In cases where the races of both the victim and offender were known, a staggering 88.9% of black homicide victims were murdered by black criminals.

Race mongers and other leftists want to dismiss these facts as “what-aboutism,” an attempt to divert attention away from America’s allegedly endemic racism. But to rational people, these facts simply provide perspective.

The facts from the Washington Post preclude rational people from using words like “genocide” to describe policing in America. They preclude rational people from saying, as the Central Park bird watcher did, that the obnoxious woman with the dog was trying to “bring death by cop down on my head.” They preclude rational people from accepting nearly all of the rubbish spouted by the BlackLivesMatter movement.

The other problem that race mongers and other leftists have with what-aboutism is that it highlights the fact that the overwhelming threat to black lives in America is criminal behavior by blacks. As Horowitz notes, nearly 90 percent of black homicide victims were killed by blacks.

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Crime has been dramatically increasing in the Twin Cities even before these events.  The response to what happened to George Floyd looks like a mass tantrum where people are fowling their own nest in an emotional rage.   They are likely to see fewer businesses and jobs in those areas as a result of their tantrum.

I think some of the reaction is also a response to the liberal lock down which disproportionally impacted minorities.  Minnesota is a state run by liberal Democrats and they are largely responsible for this rage.