Quote Originally Posted by Dorcus View Post
I only learnt today that there have been 1123 citizens killed by US police in the last year and the vast majority of victims were black. If you crudely extrapolated that data to the UK population then there would have been over 200 deaths by police officer's over here. What do we usually get, maybe a handful?

Yes there's something radically wrong indeed and it's not too difficult to work out what.
Before the George Floyd killing I'd not considered black peoples fear of the police.
Friends of mine have since told me that they are petrified of being pulled over for a traffic stop.

There is of course spin put on this terrible incident that it was a racist crime due to racial profiling.
I think that claim is massively unhelpful and unfair (not to say that there isn't institutional racism with in the police force). I think that there may have been something personal between the victim and one of the policemen.