Recognize that this is an issue of class with race being a tertiary, and distracting, factor.
Sorry, but that's just not true. Police certainly fails working-class Whites too in some ways, but racism IS a real issue.
I'm not saying that racism isn't a real issue. I'm making the case that class trumps race when dealing with social class and status.
I think I would have to agree. The given statistics do show a problematic skew in the race of police shooting victims, but a super majority of people shot by the police are not black. I haven't seen data on the income level of police shooting victims but I'd bet a super majority of them are lower income.
