What deflection?
Where is the outcry for blacks murdering blacks, nothing is said. but if a police officer white or black kills a black, it is national news. What about white cops killing white crooks, not in the news. Why does it have to be a cop killing a black person? We have cops in this city shooting white thugs all the time, no news.
This is a problem that you decide to bury your head in the sand about.
I care about the black on black crime which is way more prevalent than cops shooting blacks....or whites when they don't need to.
This whole line of reasoning, which is what passes for political debate these days, is what Bill O'reilly would call "excusing bad behavior by pointing out other bad behavior". yes everyone should be outraged about the black on black inner city crime where thousands of young black people kill thousands of other young black people, but what exactly does that have to do with shooting a young man who had a knife 16 effing times????????
If there is ever going to be an end to the inner city crime it's going to take a larger police presence in those areas, does this sort of behavior make anyone feel like they want more police in their neighborhood? Of course most cops are good folks just trying to do their jobs, but how many more of these stories do we have to hear before somebody says "hey let's keep and reward the 99% of cops who are good and who are at least trying to do the right things, and let's get rid of the 1% who is giving the rest a terrible name"? And wait around all you want, chances are you won't hear the police come out and condemn these things, maybe once in a while but hardly ever.
This is what happens when you start out with your end goal decision (in this case, if you don't want to condemn the few cops who are nutcases with guns then you just point out how many other people are killed therefore this killing really isn't that important". What you will see again soon, if you haven't already is a cool Facebook meme about "how I'm am a great American, I support ALL LEOs, so I don't worry about troubling ****e, I can just sit here and pat myself on the back and feel all warm and fuzzy, I mean after all, they aren't killing anyone I know, right?"
The real truth and the real solutions are hard to come by and even harder to implement, so let's just twist ****e around so that we don't have to.