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Re: "The far larger number of young black men killed by other young black men is just as much a symptom of that racism"

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How so? Not clear to me at all.

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Black on Black crime-- where it's disproportionately higher than white on white crime-- is largely a function of internalized oppression. You're UK, right? US stereotypes about Blacks are internalized by Blacks, which is part of internalized oppression.

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However, Black on Black crime is not an issue of citizens of all colors, cultures, income level, and social status paying people in uniforms via tax dollars-- to protect the people they are killing.

Black on Black crime would be a separate topic from this thread.

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RIJ Ms. Rekia Boyd, age 22, March 22, 2012, an innocent bystander killed when an off-duty cop shot and killed a "dangerous person wielding a gun" nearby-- which turned out to be a cellphone.

When Chicago Police Detective Dante Servin heads to court next January for the fatal shooting of Rekia Boyd, a 22-year-old unarmed black woman, he will be the first CPD officer in more than 17 years to be tried for a shooting death.

Servin appeared Wednesday in a Cook County court, where his case was delayed until Jan. 21, 2015 -- more than a year after his indictment on charges of involuntary manslaughter, reckless discharge of a firearm and reckless conduct in connection with Boyd's death. Earlier this year, the city paid Boyd's family a $4.5 million wrongful death settlement. MORE

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RIJ Joseph Gould. In July 1995, Joseph Gould, a black 36-year-old homeless Chicago newspaper vendor, was shot and killed by Gregory Becker, a white, off-duty Chicago police officer. Becker served four years in jail after a jury found him guilty of involuntary manslaughter and armed violence in 1997, though an Illinois appellate court later overturned the conviction, claiming the two charges were inconsistent.

That was the last time (before Rekia Boyd's death) that a Chicago police officer was tried over a shooting. Until the new bill before Obama, police departments were not required by law to share these statistics with the DOJ or anyone else. MORE

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~Susan