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2023-06-14 18:09:43 UTC - HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: 26E23160B549D6505B9B9187E595CF2CD65E58948DCEDD908F7CFC15BAFAD255
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This claim conflates FBI stranger murder stats (which are by definition unlawful killings) with all justified and unjustified police shootings. For the numbers and risks to be actually be equivalent, 100% of police shootings would need to be unjustified. FBI stat commentary: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/topic-pages/expanded-homicide
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