There is a lot of prevarication and obfuscation when it comes to the power play that mostly-white police officers are exerting when they shoot, beat, or otherwise abuse minority subjects.

Right-Wing Media Push "Black-On-Black" Crime Canard To Deflect From Ferguson Police Shooting

Right-wing media emphasized the supposed prevalence of "black-on-black" violence in response to the shooting death of unarmed black teen Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri. But such emphasis takes the crime statistics out of context in order to hype the racial aspect.

Scroll to the bottom of the collection of citations and you'll find this blockquote:

Nearly two times a week in the United States, a white police officer killed a black person during a seven-year period ending in 2012, according to the most recent accounts of justifiable homicide reported to the FBI.

On average, there were 96 such incidents among at least 400 police killings each year that were reported to the FBI by local police. The numbers appear to show that the shooting of a black teenager in Ferguson, Mo., last Saturday was not an isolated event in American policing.

The reports show that 18% of the blacks killed during those seven years were under age 21, compared to 8.7% of whites. [USA Today, 8/15/14]

Those who don't want their motives examined, who are bigots, practice a form of social bigotry by trying to change the subject and suggest it is part of a different issue. Thus removing the gaze from the white police officers and instead blaming the victims.

SRS