Originally Posted by
ashlesha
I'm not going to dig through an article, so taking the numbers you shared at face value, let's see.
For every 1 black person in the US there are over 4 white people. But for every 1 black person shot by police in the US, there are about 2 white people shot by police.
Black people are 13.5% of the US population, 25% of the armed people who are shot by police, and 50% of the unarmed people shot by police.
I'm bad at math, and I encourage double checking, but this is what I see in the numbers here.