The U.S. government doesn't have a database collecting information about the total number of police involved shootings each year. Why ? They don't want people to know. Why ? Because police shoot a lot more people than you think.
But let's run with your argument that more whites are killed by the Police than blacks. So let's just say these stats are right.
They are still meaningless.For a start white Hispanics are considered white in the USA. So whites are around 73% of the US and white Hispanics are around 12%, that's around 84% of the US population. Blacks are around 10%.
So the critical factor ignored by you is the extent to which the Police encounter blacks and whites. The police have more dealings with, encounters with, scuffles with more whites than they do blacks which gives them more chance to use deadly force.
Your point is like me saying "It's less dangerous to encounter a Grizzly bear, than be in a car, because way more people die in a car, than die at the hands of a Grizzly bear" See how stupid that sounds ? But statistically speaking what I said is true.
It's wrong because you have to judge what happens when people encounters Grizzly bears in comparison to what happens people get in a car. You didn't compare like with like. You're not comparing unarmed black men being killed with unarmed white men.
I don't know if Slager sought him out because he was black. How can you know ? It's impossible.
However what we do know is widepread police racism, from the recent cases in which white officers were found to have been sending around or posting blatantly racist e-mails, videos or text messages, as in
Florida and
San Francisco,
in Ferguson. Or posting racist updates on their Facebook walls in
case after
case after
case after
case after
case after
case after
case after
case after
case after
case.
We know it from the way police manage to justify any killing black person even
blaming a twelve year old like Tamir Rice for his own death at the hands of a Cleveland officer who was previously found
unfit for service. Or the way police in Philadelphia viciously assaulted Najee Rivera and then
lied about the incident to cover up their brutality.
We also know case a black man called Glenn Ford,
imprisoned for thirty years on death row for a crime he did not commit, but for which he was convicted by an all-white jury.
Or Darryl Hunt,
convicted and imprisoned for two decades for the rape and murder of a white woman, despite his innocence—also convicted by an all-white jury.
Or Ronald Cotton,
convicted and imprisoned for ten years for a rape of a white woman that he did not commit, only exonerated after DNA evidence proved his innocence.
Or for
Marvin Anderson.
Or for
Herman Atkins.
Or for
Bennett Barbour.
We know that black males are
twenty-one times more likely than white males to be killed by police, not because we commit crime twenty-one times, but because they are perceived as dangerous in ways that white men are not.
We know that white folks can
parade around with guns (real ones, with actual bullets, unlike the toy possessed by Tamir Rice or the air rifle held by John Crawford) and
not be shot, tased or in any way abused by officers.
Even when they threaten those officers. Even when they
verbally taunt and abuse those officers outside a school. Even when they
bring that weapon to a park between the White House and Capitol building, and proceed to issue political threats.
They know that a white man can actually point his weapon at officers, refuse to drop that weapon when told to do so, and even demand that the officers “drop their f*cking guns,” as happened
last year in New Orleans and still remain a breathing.
We know that a white guy can
shoot at cops with a BB gun and not be violently beaten or killed for his actions. Or that white guys
can shoot up a Walmart in Idaho and be taken into custody without injury. Or
point a gun at cops in Pennsylvania and not be killed or injured. Or
point a gun at firefighters in Phoenix and not get shot when the cops arrive.
We know a white woman can
shoot up a neighborhood and lead cops on a car chase during which she also shoots at them, and still live to tell the story, all while black women who are posing no threat to police at all are
killed with frightening regularity by the cops.