Police shootings don’t happen as often as implied in column

f you were new to the U.S. and you read Eugene Robinson’s piece on the “unabated” and “unjustified” police killing of African Americans (“Why a black man can’t be NRA’s ‘good guy with a gun,’”), you would expect to find hundreds of references to these killings in this year alone.

Nope. Police make many thousands of contacts with people of all ethnicities every day. Very few lead to any use of force, and an incredibly small percentage end with lethal force.

Tragedies do occur; police are people reacting to other people. But to imply that police routinely kill people based in any way on their ethnicity then lie about it is just absurd.

Brian Post

Mountlake Terrace