Every time the issue of police brutality against blacks comes up the question of black-on-black crime looms like a brick wall against which to bang your head. Are there more black criminals than others, as a percentage of the population? The FBI crime report (2014) says when it comes to violent arrests, whites accounted for 59.4 per cent of those arrests. Now imagine, if instead of outrage, the reaction was indifference, and that people supported the idea that the predominantly white protesters deserved what they got, given the prevalence of white-on-white crime. For those taking refuge in ‘what about black-on-black crime’ arguments, that is beyond tolerance.

Source: thestar January 30, 2017 12:01 UTC