Fun fact, many of the "unarmed" shootings by police are incidents when the suspect struggled with the cop trying to disarm them-(fighting for the gun), or they were using a vehicle as weapon, etc.

A very good friend of mine, a Deputy, shot an "unarmed" white male, who just so happened to try and run him over with his car while fleeing a traffic stop. Ruled a justified shooting. My friend was injured slightly, and the bad guy had a large hole through his hand, which was holding the steering wheel.

Another incident from Detroit a few years ago, an "Unarmed" B/M with a mental health and criminal history, was in his front yard swinging at his family members with a machete. Charged the cops as soon as they showed up, and was shot dead.

"Unarmed" just means didn't bring their own gun to the incident, doesn't mean they didn't represent a deadly threat.

Now compare it to the percentage of violent crimes that are committed by blacks.

Hint: It's a lot.

The most fundamental relationship between groups of humans is based on violence. If it is present, the groups move apart; if it is absent, they work together.

There are countless groups in the United States who have cultures and values that aren't even Western, never mind American, and everyone gets along fine. It doesn't matter if the differences are racial, ethnic, social, cultural, or religious.

Introduce violence into the equation, though, and the dynamic changes instantly. Measures will always be taken by the more peaceful group to preemptively defend itself from the more violent one. In the USA, those social measures have come to be known as "discrimination".

Such a response has existed since Man first walked upright. Survival begins and ends with violence, and no amount of denial, preaching, shaming, bargaining, pleading, or wishful thinking will overcome that biological programming.

In the United States, blacks (regardless of where they were born, or whether they are US citizens) comprise approximately 13.5% of the population, and males between the ages of 15 and 45 approximately 3.5%. More than half of the USA's violent crime is committed by that 3.5%.

If the disproportionate violent crime committed by that group were to suddenly return to the national average, the behavior displayed by the rest of society towards it---unequal treatment, suspicion, hostility, and so forth---would, over time, drop to the same level as for any other group of people living in America who can be identified at a glance or with a word: Chinese, Koreans, Sikhs, Poles, Jews, Irish, Germans, Swedes, Italians, Norwegians, Amish, Mennonites, etc.

That's simply how humans work. Their default is "You leave me alone and I'll leave you alone."

That obvious truth isn't politically popular, though, because a few powerful people who make their living by starting fires and fanning the flames don't want the situation to improve.

In fact, by the 21st century, those outrage profiteers have been so successful that the behavior of the group they exploit---the disproportionate violence that not only must be addressed but must be addressed FIRST---isn't even discussable. In fact, increasingly, the truth of its existence can't even be acknowledged.

Nice infographic. Too bad they can't read.