Along_the_Wire True, but do you think that a white man would get strangled to death in the same way as George Floyd?
Firstly, that guy at the petrol station I was referring to did not get strangled to death. Therefore, I don’t know why you’re bringing up the Floyd case in response to it, which is a completely unrelated incident (not only because the petrol station one was in the UK and the Floyd one in the US).
Secondly, addressing your comment anyway, around 400 white people are shot to death by police in the US every year still. This is double the overall number of black people shot to death by police every year (though of course relative to population levels black people have a higher chance of being shot than white, with approx 3x the likelihood per person).
I couldn’t find more specific figures for those killed by strangulation, perhaps unsurprisingly, but those numbers on shootings alone suggests that your insinuation that a white person would never be the victim of police brutality in the US is clearly misplaced.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/585152/people-shot-to-death-by-us-police-by-race/
https://www.statista.com/chart/21857/people-killed-in-police-shootings-in-the-us/
Just to underline the point, here’s another detailed study of police deaths in the US, with a broader classification of “deaths due to use of lethal force” - between 2009-2012, 40 unarmed white people were killed by police due to use of lethal force, and 39 black people were. Again, black people are more likely to be affected, but it indicates that it doesn’t all go one way.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6080222/
(As a side-note, I found it quite interesting in the gun stats that Hispanic people aren’t that much less likely to be shot by police per person as black people, but I don’t get the impression that so much gets heard about that either. I could be wrong.)
