- Prison guards aren’t police.
- They were convicted, meaning that they didn’t get away with it.
How does the above have anything to do with police killing black people and getting away with it?
Oh now details matter to you?! since you first levied the charge perhaps you can first finally tell us how a group of people who are fighting for their natural right to exist is the same as a hate group trying to exterminate anyone not like said hate group?
Or how a group that is agaisnt fascism is the same as the fascist groups they oppose?
Prison guards are part of the machine, an extension of local law enforcement. They were convicted because the FBI got involved not because local law encorcement did anything about it but because the feds got involved.
As for your earlier questions
since June 2007, out of approximately 10,000 police shootings, only five white police officers have been imprisoned for killing someone black.
2005 and 2017, 33 of the 49 people killed by indicted cops were black, but only five officers were convicted, making the homicide conviction rate for black victims a mere 12 percent.
Michael Brelo is a perfect example. After a 2012 car chase, Brelo and other Cleveland police officers fired 137 bullets at Timothy Russell and Malissa Williams. Brelo shot 49 of those bullets, meaning that he took the time to reload. Twice. When he fired the last 15 rounds, Brelo was standing on top of the car, where he could probably see that the couple was unarmed and likely already dead. Brelo was found not guilty on all charges.
Most cops never even face charges for shooting black victims. Even though 1,146 lives were ended by police in 2015, not one cop was convicted for an on-duty killing that year.
Prosecutors have to work with police departments every day, so many are reluctant to bring charges against the officers who work with them to convict criminals. Even when prosecutors charge the cops, the grand jury process ensures that many officers will never face trial. In most states, when evidence is presented in front of a grand jury, the victim is represented by the state. While this seems legitimate in most criminal cases, in the cases of police shootings, the prosecutors trying to indict the police officers are essentially teammates of the accused.
It’s why Darren Wilson never faced a trial for shooting an unarmed 18-year old named Mike Brown after St. Louis County prosecutor Bob McCulloch (whose father was a police officer) sent the case to a grand jury instead of arresting him. It explains why Richmond County District Attorney Dan Donovan refused to release the details of the case after a Staten Island, N.Y., grand jury refused to indict Daniel Pantaleo for squeezing the life out of Eric Garner with an illegal choke hold. It’s the reason the cop who shot 12-year-old Tamir Rice in Cleveland two seconds after exiting the patrol car never stood in front of a judge or jury. It’s why the men who shot John Crawford for holding a BB gun in a Beavercreek, Ohio, Walmart never faced trial.
In 2015, of the 235 unarmed people killed by law-enforcement officers, only 18 deaths resulted in officers being charged. Another 169 unarmed civilians were killed in 2016, according to The Guardian, but only 16 officers even faced charges. In the last 10 years, only 82 cops have ever faced charges for killing anyone, meaning that more than 99 percent of cops who have caused the death of a civilian were never charged with a crime.
The average sentence served by someone convicted of killing another human being is 81 months, which doesn’t seem like a long time for taking someone’s life. For police, that number drops down to an average of 48 months. It is impossible to calculate when the victim is black because in the last 13 years, here is the list of white men who have served prison time for killing an African American:
Joshua Colclough: Colclough received four years in prison for shooting Wendell Allen in the chest in New Orleans.
Gregg Gunnier, Arthur Tesser and Jason Smith: These two cops burst into the Atlanta home of 92-year-old Kathryn Johnson, shot her dead and received five- to 10-year sentences.
Johannes Mehserle: Shot Oscar Grant in the back of the head while he was handcuffed and on the ground at a BART train station in Oakland, Calif. He received two years in jail.
Dishonorable mentions:
Robert Bates: Though he technically wasn’t an actual police officer, this millionaire reserve deputy with the Tulsa Sheriff’s Office who was playing cops and robbers joined in a chase of a bank-robbery suspect and “inadvertently” shot Robert Bates in the head. He will serve four years.
Michael Slager: While technically convicted for civil rights violations after shooting Walter Scott in the back in North Charleston, S.C., while he was running away, Slager has yet to be sentenced.
police kill blacks at 2.5 times the rate of whites;
This is why Black Lives Matter. This is why they are not the same as the white supremacy groups.
Is that enough? You know you can easily look this stuff up on your own. You dont have to settle for believing what “right wing retards and half wit rednecks” tell you.