Shock! (... not really...)-----M-1 officials decline to discuss funding problems; taxpayers on the hook

M-1 officials decline to discuss funding problems; taxpayers on the hook
"Although federal taxpayers forked over $37.2 million to help fund the delayed M-1 streetcar project in Detroit, rail officials have refused so far to disclose the budget or operating costs.

That’s important because metro Detroit voters are being asked in November to begin paying for operations of the streetcars in 2024 as part of a larger regional transit plan.

Motor City Muckraker requested a copy of the M-1 construction and operating budgets after a member of the M-1 Board of Directors expressed serious concerns about the project. 
The board member, who spoke on condition on anonymity, said the $179.4 million project is costing more than anticipated because of slower-than-expected construction. 
As a result, M-1 has less money to finance the operations, which originally were targeted at $5.5 million a year..."

Where people get their news!-----U.S. Media Publishers and Publications – Ranked for June 2016

U.S. Media Publishers and Publications – Ranked for June 2016 - Similarweb Blog
These are the top U.S. media publishers and publications in the US as of April 2016. 
As always, our rankings are determined using SimilarWeb data that combines desktop and mobile page-views. 
To check out the top publishers and publications from last month, find the complete May ranking here. 

Lunch video-----We Saved Our Democracy

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Newly released video DESTROYS liberal narrative on Alton Sterling shooting - Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com

Newly released video DESTROYS liberal narrative on Alton Sterling shooting - Allen B. West - AllenBWest.com:

"Once again — as we reported regarding the tragic death of Philando Castile, there are always two (if not more) sides to every story.

Unfortunately too many people – including our president and the mainstream media — are all too eager to jump to conclusions before all the facts are presented. Sadly, as we learned in Dallas, it can be a deadly mistake."

Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms

Orwell on Why Politicians Resort to Euphemisms | Intellectual Takeout:
"As a few of my colleagues have noted in the past, today’s academic writing is one big farce. 
Rather than express their ideas in a clear, straightforward way, academics seem to believe they can only prove their intellectual ability by stringing together sentences of pompous words.
Unfortunately, the general public furthers this practice by behaving like the subjects in The Emperor’s New Clothes, who refused to state their true opinions about the so-called clothes for fear of sounding uniformed.
But academics aren’t the only ones who practice this form of mind-numbing communication. According to a 1945 essay by George Orwell, politicians are masters of “the inflated style” of speech and writing as well:
“When one watches some tired hack on the platform mechanically repeating the familiar phrases – bestial atrocities, iron heel, blood-stained tyranny, free peoples of the world, stand shoulder to shoulder – one often has a curious feeling that one is not watching a live human being but some kind of dummy: a feeling which suddenly becomes stronger at moments when the light catches the speaker’s spectacles and turns them into blank discs which seem to have no eyes behind them.
And this is not altogether fanciful.
...In our time, political speech and writing are largely the defence of the indefensible. …
Thus political language has to consist largely of euphemism, question-begging and sheer cloudy vagueness.”
Orwell goes on to explain that politicians use the “inflated style” of speech to cover their tracks and gloss over the root problems with which society wrestles:
“The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. 
When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.
In our age there is no such thing as ‘keeping out of politics’. 
All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.
When the general atmosphere is bad, language must suffer.”
As we start down the final stretch of the 2016 political season, Orwell’s words are worth consideration. 
Do Americans have the knowledge to see through the inflated political rhetoric given out by both parties?"

Scientist Says ADHD is Basically Bullsh*t

Scientist Says ADHD is Basically Bullsh*t | Intellectual Takeout:
"Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, or ADHD, “is a prime example of fictitious disease,” said Leon Eisenberg, the “scientific father of ADHD,” shortly before he passed away at the age of 87 in 2009.

Why would Eisenberg claim that a condition we’ve come to know so well is largely fictitious?  

While many have said that Eisenberg’s statement is highly exaggerated, it turns out that numerous doctors are finding conclusive evidence that ADHD is being “over-diagnosed” due to inaccurate diagnostic methods.

Jerome Kagan, a leading expert in child development, says:

“Let’s go back 50 years. We have a 7-year-old child who is bored in school and disrupts classes. Back then, he was called lazy. Today, he is said to suffer from ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder). . . . Every child who’s not doing well in school is sent to see a pediatrician, and the pediatrician says: “It’s ADHD; here’s Ritalin.” In fact, 90 percent of these 5.4 million kids don’t have an abnormal dopamine metabolism. The problem is, if a drug is available to doctors, they’ll make the corresponding diagnosis.”

Today in the U.S., one out of every ten boys aged 10 years old takes some form of medication for ADHD every day.  
And as this number continues to rise, those with stakes in the pharmaceutical industry continue to make money..."

Nehlen Puts Ryan On Defense: Forces Speaker To Defend To Having Wall For Himself But Not Country

Nehlen Puts Ryan On Defense: Forces Speaker To Defend To Having Wall For Himself But Not Country - Breitbart:
"House Speaker Paul Ryan is trying to defend his decision to have a personal border wall to protect his home, while refusing to build a border wall to protect America.
Ryan says that the reason he needs a personal border wall is because he has three children.
“Having a backyard fence for three dogs and three kids is not a half-bad idea,” Ryan said during his Monday interview with Wisconsin’s NBC15.
Although Ryan made clear that his children are entitled to play, live and grow up in an environment that’s shielded from external threats, he did not seem sold on the idea that the rest of America’s children should be afforded such protections.
When asked if he intended to make “building a wall part of the GOP agenda,” Ryan would not answer.
Nor did Ryan answer affirmatively when asked specifically if, as House Speaker, he would allow legislation “on to the floor of the House to build a wall along the border with Mexico.”
Instead, Ryan seemed to indicate that he could perhaps use his position of power to oppose President Trump’s planned wall — noting that he doesn’t necessarily agree with Trump on “how” to secure the border..."

Top Democrat (Super Deligate) on House vet affairs committee charged with fraud

Top Democrat on House vet affairs committee charged with fraud - U.S. - Stripes: "JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown of Florida and her chief of staff pleaded not guilty Friday to multiple fraud charges and other federal offenses in a grand jury indictment unsealed after an investigation into what prosecutors call a phony charity turned into a personal slush fund.
Brown, a 69-year-old Democrat, and Chief of Staff Elias "Ronnie" Simmons, 50, entered pleas in Jacksonville federal court on charges of mail and wire fraud, conspiracy, obstruction and filing of false tax returns.
...The 24-count indictment comes after an investigation into the purported charity One Door for Education Foundation Inc., which federal prosecutors say was billed as a way to give scholarships to poor students but instead filled the coffers of Brown and her associates.
...The indictment says that Brown, Simmons and Wiley "used the vast majority" of One Door donations for their personal and professional benefit, including tens of thousands of dollars in cash deposits that Simmons made to Brown's personal bank accounts.
...One Door money was also used for such things are repairs to Brown's car and vacations to locations such as the Bahamas, Miami Beach and Los Angeles. 
In addition, House of Representatives money was used to pay a "close family member" of Simmons identified as "Person C" more than $735,000 between 2001 and 2016 for a job in Brown's office that involved little or no work, according to the indictment.
Simmons allegedly benefited from some of that money..."

STUNNING: What They're Saying About The Dallas Sniper Sounds Like Hillary/Obama Talk About ISIS

STUNNING: What They're Saying About The Dallas Sniper Sounds Like Hillary/Obama Talk About ISIS:

"And where else have Obama and Clinton tried to draw a line and make a distinction between “terrorists” and the groups that inform and are thought by many to inspire their actions?

That’s right, the president and the woman who wants to have the job next have both argued that ISIS, the Islamic State and terrorists who claim to be holy warriors in the name of Allah and the caliphate really have nothing to do with Islam, the so-called “religion of peace.”

What a remarkable similarity between the two attempts to separate, to dissociate the “parental” groups — Black Lives Matter and Islam — from the terrorists, criminals and thugs who are born out of their goals and ideals, out of their distorted doctrines and twisted teachings"

Detroit. Dead last------2016’s Best Large Cities to Live in

2016’s Best Large Cities to Live in | WalletHub®:
"With real estate and employment markets varying considerably across the country,
WalletHub compared the attractiveness of the 62 largest U.S. cities in terms 31 relevant metrics, including measures of livability, health- and education-system quality, economic growth and tax burden.
The results, as well as expert commentary and a detailed methodology, can be found below."

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History for July 12

History for July 12 - On-This-Day.com:
Gaius Julius Caesar 100 BC, Henry David Thoreau 1817, George Eastman 1854 - Founded Eastman Kodak Company


R. Buckminster Fuller 1895, Milton Berle 1908 - Actor, Bill Cosby 1937 - Actor, comedian


1543 - England's King Henry VIII married his sixth and last wife, Catherine Parr.


1862 - The U.S. Congress authorized the Medal of Honor.


1870 - The first rotary can opener with a cutting wheel was patented by William W. Lyman.


1933 - A minimum wage of 40 cents an hour was established in the U.S.


1954 - U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed a highway modernization program, with costs to be shared by federal and state governments.


1957 - The U.S. surgeon general, Leroy E. Burney, reported that there was a direct link between smoking and lung cancer.


1960 - Manufacturing began for the Etch A Sketch®.


1982 - The last of the distinctive-looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, MI.

Sheriff: 3 Dead After Shots Fired at Michigan Courthouse | TheBlaze.com

Sheriff: 3 Dead After Shots Fired at Michigan Courthouse | TheBlaze.com:

"ST. JOSEPH, Mich. (TheBlaze/AP) — A sheriff says two bailiffs and a gunman are dead at a western Michigan courthouse where a shooting happened."

Rudy Giuliani: Black Lives Matter is ‘Inherently Racist’ and ‘Anti-American’ | TheBlaze.com

Rudy Giuliani: Black Lives Matter is ‘Inherently Racist’ and ‘Anti-American’ | TheBlaze.com:

"He added that another reality black Americans face is violence within the black community.

“A black will die 1 percent or less at the hands of police and 99 percent at the hands of a civilian, most often another black,” he said.

Guiliani noted that every 14 hours in Chicago a black person is killed by another civilian.

“So if you want to deal with this, on the black side, you’ve got to teach your children to be respectful to the police, and you’ve got to teach your children that the real danger to them is not the police,” he said. “The real danger to them … are other black kids.”"

[VIDEO] Armed Or Unarmed? How Quickly Could You Make That Decision?

[VIDEO] Armed Or Unarmed? How Quickly Could You Make That Decision? | Three Percenter Nation:
"In Law Enforcement, milliseconds matter.
What would you have done if you were in these guys’ shoes?
Wow!"

Media Ignore the Tsunami of Black Violence against Cops

Articles: Media Ignore the Tsunami of Black Violence against Cops
"...The head of a black group called Dallas Action said the killings were a wake up call to let people know how cops are picking on black people.
All the time.
For no reason whatsoever.
The local Fox reporter in Dallas took the comments in stride, quickly changing the topic to all the pretty lights on nearby police cars.
Not one reporter at any point even hinted at how black violence is wildly out of proportion.
Not one reporter talked to any cop willing to tell the truth about how police are relentless victims of black hostility and violence and murder — all over the country.
And how black on cop violence and defiance are now the default response.
Not the other way around.
A brief magical mystery tour of black on cop violence over the last few weeks.
In Baltimore, one week ago, hundreds of black people took to the streets to celebrate the life of the recently killed rapper Lor Scoota.
He was best known for celebrating guns, drugs, money and bitches in his videos and in his life.
Eventually cops showed up:
They were greeted with bottles and rocks and threats and taunts when they suggested to the hundreds of black people that destroying property and disobeying the law was not a good idea.
The police chief dutifully defended the rioters, reminding the Baltimore audience that event was largely peaceful.
As was Dallas.
Top political figures in Baltimore made their way to the scene of the crimes to blame police for antagonizing the black people.
As usual, the Baltimore Sun and other local media wagged their tails and went along with the story: the greatest hoax of our lifetimes — the lie of black victimization. 
All documented in that scintillating best seller Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry.

• In Syracuse on Father’s Day in the ghetto, 500 black people were blowing some weed and shooting some guns when a female cop showed up. The videos show the crowds fleeing the gunfire as the officer runs towards it. When her backup arrived, they found the cop on the ground, surrounded by a large group of black people beating and kicking her and trying to steal her gun. One black man was running around, pleading for a gun to shoot the police..."

(lots more at link)

• In the first few days of June of normally bucolic Stafford, Virginia, police interrupted a black man during a burglary. He shot a cop. The cop lived. So did the black person.
• In Fayetteville, Arkansas, a black man ran over one cop and tried to shoot another. After, as he recovered from a gunshot, he claimed he was the victim of police brutality because cops were picking on him for no reason whatsoever. Even after the cop did the buddy-buddy routine.
• In Durham, North Carolina, cops busted a plan by a group of black people to kidnap and murder a prosecuting attorney. They got the wrong guy, trying to kidnap the prosecutor’s father.
• Not too far from Durham, about the same time, a black man named Moon decided he did not want to comply with a lawful police order. So he attacked the cop, who picked him up and body slammed Moon with the grace and ease to make a professional wrestler proud. Moon got straight.  
• A few days before that in Miami Gardens, a black man unhappy at a traffic stop pulled up to a cop and shot the cop at point blank range, somehow missing.

In Ireland, a young man disturbed a family gathering by announcing he had been following the shootings in Dallas and said he was happy black people were finally fighting back because cops had been picking on black people in America for a long time for no reason whatsoever.
He learned that from CNN.
From a story featuring the President. 
Of the United States of America.
Read on.
Lots of evil here.

Dallas Police Chief: Shooter Had Much Larger Plans to ‘Make Us Pay’ for Perceived Injustice Against Black People | Video | TheBlaze.com

Dallas Police Chief: Shooter Had Much Larger Plans to ‘Make Us Pay’ for Perceived Injustice Against Black People | Video | TheBlaze.com:

"DALLAS (TheBlaze/AP) — The suspect in the deadly attack on Dallas police taunted authorities during two hours of negotiations, laughing at them, singing and at one point asking how many officers he had shot, Dallas Police Chief David Brown said Sunday.

“We’re convinced that this suspect had other plans and thought that what he was doing was righteous and believed that he was going to target law enforcement — make us pay for what he sees as law enforcement’s efforts to punish people of color,” Brown told CNN’s Jake Tapper Sunday on “State of the Union.”"

The Marines are Looking for a Few Fat Millennials

The Marines are Looking for a Few Fat Millennials | US Defense Watch
"You are witnessing history.
You are watching the death of one of the greatest fighting forces in the long history of this planet.
You are a spectator with a fifty yard line seat as the complete and utter destruction of the United States Marine Corps takes place.
It has been seven months since Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, with the blessing of White House social engineers, decided to lift the ban on women serving in the combat arms (infantry, armor, armored cavalry, artillery) and special operations (Marine Recon, Marine Raiders, the Green Berets, the Rangers, Delta Force and the SEALs).
Carter’s authorization was barely even discussed and rubber stamped by a Congress sorely lacking in military knowledge, moral courage and veterans; and indeed combat veterans who served in the Army or Marine combat arms units.
It’s been the battle cry of the Pentagon perfumed princes, from Dempsey to Dunford to Milley and Carter and Mabus that the standards will never be altered to accommodate women as the US Military continues its kamikaze run to destruction on future battlefields.
Obviously, those assurances, like everything else flushed downstream from the Pentagon toilet bowl is genuine, Grade A, horse dung.
This week, as reported in the Washington Post, the Marine Corps will now allow chubbier women to slip through the cracks.
“Female Marines will be allowed to weigh five to seven pounds more than before for each inch of their height, according to new guidelines published by the service. A 5-foot-6 woman, for example, was previously allowed to weigh up to 155 pounds, but can now be 161. A 5-foot-9 woman was allowed to be up to 169 pounds, but can now be 176.”
In order to accommodate those muscular superstars of the Millennial Generation, the Corps is also relaxing the rules on pull-ups for men and women.
The new rule will eliminate fixed-arm hanging as an alternative choice to pull-ups for women. 
In place of fixed-arm hanging women, and men, will have the option to choose push-ups instead.
What’s next, perhaps an option not to show up for the test at all?
“Push-ups become an option on the PFT (Physical Fitness Test), but Marines are incentivized toward pull-ups, as these are a better test of functional, dynamic upper body strength and correlate stronger to physically demanding tasks,’ Marine Corps Commandant Gen. Robert Neller said in an administrative message to the Corps released Friday. ‘Push-ups are also a valid exercise and good test; however maximum points can only be earned by executing pull-ups.”
Comrade General Neller continues with more Orwellian doublespeak:
“The hybrid pull-up option is the Marines’ solution to a four-year conundrum of how to promote pull-ups for all Marines without making it impossible for women to succeed.”
And, there lies the rub. The Corps knows, like everyone knows, except the brainwashed academics, pundits and leftists in the Obama Administration, that 99% of women cannot meet the physical standards required to serve in the combat arms.
The standards will be lowered until the new gender neutral Marine Corps is so weak that they couldn’t seize and hold a sandbox, much less a hostile beachhead.
Here are some highlights from Neller’s memorandum for record:
...I have news for Lukeman, fatter and bigger does not create track and field stars.
Fatter and bigger creates slow moving targets of opportunity for the enemy.
Fat and out of shape Marines die in battle.
Fat and out of shape Marines put their unit and the Corps in danger by their total lack of fitness and physical prowess.
Idiots like Carter and Mabus and sycophants like Neller and Lukeman think that they’re somehow being kind and compassionate by allowing the physically unfit to serve in the ranks of the Marines.
There is no compassion in war.
There is no gender neutrality in battle.
Everyone doesn’t get a trophy in combat. In war, the strongest and the smartest survive, and the weak; the fat, the slow, the less than able are toe tagged and body bagged.
The US Marines didn’t carve a trail of courage and ferocity for 240 years because their ranks were filled with overweight women and soft and pudgy men.
They won wars because they were tough, fast, brutal SOB’s who knew that in war there are no second chances, that in the words of MacArthur, “There is no substitute for victory.”
The US military is on the verge of complete collapse and our enemies are loving every minute of it.

"Organic" Is The Latin Word For "Grown In Pig Shit"

"Organic" Is The Latin Word For "Grown In Pig Shit" - Small Dead Animals:
"Organic farming is sold as good for the environment.
This is correct for a single farm field: organic farming uses less energy, emits less greenhouse gasses, nitrous oxide and ammonia and causes less nitrogen leeching than a conventional field.
But each organic field yields much, much less. 
So, to grow the same amount of wheat, spinach or strawberries, you need much more land.
That means that average organic produce results in the emission of about as many greenhouse gasses as conventional produce; and about 10 per cent more nitrous oxide, ammonia and acidification. Worse, to produce equivalent quantities, organic farms need to occupy 84 per cent more land - land which can't be used for forests and genuine nature reserves.
For example, to produce the amount of food America does today, but organically, would require increasing its farmland by the size of almost two United Kingdoms.
That is the equivalent of eradicating all parklands and wild lands in the lower 48 states."

Lunch video-----The Truth About Immigration: What They Won't Tell You!

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Hillary Clinton Email Scandal: Unfit President, Unfit Soldier | National Review

Hillary Clinton Email Scandal: Unfit President, Unfit Soldier | National Review:

"If Hillary were Captain Clinton instead of the presumptive Democratic nominee and wife of a disbarred former president, the following things would occur, more or less simultaneously.

First, the command would immediately suspend her security clearance. As a practical matter, this would mean that she would be unable to do her job. Absent extraordinary circumstances, she would become essentially useless to the command, a glorified manual laborer fit to fill sandbags or clean latrines but little else. Unless the officer is cleared, the loss of a security clearance means the loss of her career."

Cornell area Black Lives Matter rally: US engaged in 'genocide' against blacks, capitalism must go

Cornell area Black Lives Matter rally: US engaged in 'genocide' against blacks, capitalism must go - The College Fix:
Over 200 people in and around Ithaca, New York participated in a Black Lives Matter rally Friday afternoon to protest the recent shooting deaths of Alton Sterling in Louisiana and Philando Castile in Minnesota.
The march included several from Cornell University.
The protest’s focus was the “inherent injustices embedded in America’s political and cultural institutions,” maintained by “white supremacy.”
“One of the gifts of Black Lives Matter nationally has been to revive our awareness of structures of oppression in our society,” said Cornell graduate Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, a local Black Lives Matter organizer.
“We must also understand our personal relationships to those structures and recognize that those structures affect different people differently.
We are all oppressed under white supremacy.”
Professor Russell Rickford, who “specializes in the black radical tradition,” added that capitalism is the culprit, too:
Getting rid of it, he says, “is imperative to creating a new system that values human life and needs.”
Rickford also believes that the United States is engaging in “genocide” against African-Americans and wants the United Nations to formally charge the country with the crime..."

Bad guys "Go Boom"!

The military fired me for calling our enemies radical jihadis

The military fired me for calling our enemies radical jihadis: 
"...We’re in a global war, facing an enemy alliance that runs from Pyongyang, North Korea, to Havana, Cuba, and Caracas, Venezuela. 
Along the way, the alliance picks up radical Muslim countries and organizations such as Iran, al Qaeda, the Taliban and Islamic State.
That’s a formidable coalition, and nobody should be shocked to discover that we are losing the war.
If our leaders were interested in winning, they would have to design a strategy to destroy this global enemy. 
But they don’t see the global war. 
Instead, they timidly nibble around the edges of the battlefields from Africa to the Middle East, and act as if each fight, whether in Syria, Iraq, Nigeria, Libya or Afghanistan, can be peacefully resolved by diplomatic effort.
...We have real enemies, dedicated to dominating and eventually destroying us, and they are not going to be talked out of their hatred. 
Iran, for example, declared war on the United States in 1979 — that’s 37 years ago — and has been killing Americans ever since. 
Every year, the State Department declares Iran to be the world’s primary supporter of terror. 
Do you think we’ll nicely and politely convince them to be good citizens and even (as President Obama desires) a responsible ally supporting peace? 
Do you think ISIS or the Taliban wants to embrace us?
No, we’re not going to talk our way out of this war, nor can we escape its horrors. 
Ask the people in San Bernardino or South Florida, or the relatives of the thousands killed on 9/11. We’re either going to win or lose. 
There is no other “solution...”

Administration Circumvented Constitution in Obamacare Payments

Administration Circumvented Constitution in Obamacare Payments:

"A provision in Obamacare known as the cost sharing reduction program lowers deductibles, copayments, and coinsurance for individuals who qualify to provide extra savings. The Obama administration has been paying for this program without congressional appropriation since January 2014, despite the fact that the Constitution makes clear that the executive branch cannot spend taxpayer money without the approval of Congress."

5 Statistics You Need To Know About Cops Killing Blacks | Daily Wire

5 Statistics You Need To Know About Cops Killing Blacks | Daily Wire
The Alton Sterling and Philando Castile shootings have caused an uproar among leftists because they fuel their narrative that racist white police officers are hunting down innocent black men. 
But the statistics – brought to light by the superb work of Heather MacDonald – tell a different story.

Here are five key statistics you need to know about cops killing blacks.

1. Cops killed nearly twice as many whites as blacks in 2015. 
According to data compiled by The Washington Post, 50 percent of the victims of fatal police shootings were white, while 26 percent were black. 
The majority of these victims had a gun or "were armed or otherwise threatening the officer with potentially lethal force," according to MacDonald in a speech at Hillsdale College. 
Some may argue that these statistics are evidence of racist treatment toward blacks, since whites consist of 62 percent of the population and blacks make up 13 percent of the population. 
But as MacDonald writes in The Wall Street Journal, 2009 statistics from the Bureau of Justice Statistics reveal that blacks were charged with 62 percent of robberies, 57 percent of murders and 45 percent of assaults in the 75 biggest counties in the country, despite only comprising roughly 15 percent of the population in these counties... 
"The black violent crime rate would actually predict that more than 26 percent of police victims would be black," MacDonald said. 
"Officer use of force will occur where the police interact most often with violent criminals, armed suspects, and those resisting arrest, and that is in black neighborhoods."

3. The Post's data does show that unarmed black men are more likely to die by the gun of a cop than an unarmed white man...but this does not tell the whole story. In August 2015, the ratio was seven-to-one of unarmed black men dying from police gunshots compared to unarmed white men; the ratio was six-to-one by the end of 2015. 
But MacDonald points out in The Marshall Project that looking at the details of the actual incidents that occurred paints a different picture:

The “unarmed” label is literally accurate, but it frequently fails to convey highly-charged policing situations. In a number of cases, if the victim ended up being unarmed, it was certainly not for lack of trying. At least five black victims had reportedly tried to grab the officer’s gun, or had been beating the cop with his own equipment. Some were shot from an accidental discharge triggered by their own assault on the officer. And two individuals included in the Post’s “unarmed black victims” category were struck by stray bullets aimed at someone else in justified cop shootings. If the victims were not the intended targets, then racism could have played no role in their deaths...

 MacDonald examines a number of other instances, including unarmed black men in San Diego, CA and Prince George's County, MD attempting to reach for a gun in a police officer's holster. 
In the San Diego case, the unarmed black man actually "jumped the officer" and assaulted him, and the cop shot the man since he was "fearing for his life." MacDonald also notes that there was an instance in 2015 where "three officers were killed with their own guns, which the suspects had wrestled from them."

Read on!

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