Cops kill white people as easily as they kill black people

The problem is the sheer volume of the white cases. We just don’t hear about them. As I write, what about Hannah Williams? Or this hideous case? No, I’m not laboriously smoking these cases out when they are just weird exceptions to a general rule. They are the norm. It’s just that they don’t make national news. It really is that simple, and that sad, and that destructive to our national conversation about race. Funny thing – nothing makes this clearer than the Washington Post database of cop murders. Just pour a cup of coffee and look at what it shows, month after month, year after year. As South Park’s Cartman would put it, “Just, like, just, just look at it. Just look at it.” Yet, the enlightened take on the issue serenely sails along as if that database proves that cops ice black men regularly while white men only end up their line of fire now and then by accident. Wesley Lowery ended his iconic piece in the Washington Post on cops killing black men with going off to vomit after hearing of the latest example, as if the database showed mostly this, and it was roughly 1880 in Mississippi. But that, I hate to say, was fake. The data justify no such vomiting – at least if the vomiting is about racism. The database reveals a serious problem with cops and murder, period, quite race-neutrally.