Last week we discussed how many on the Left considered the death of a black suspect, Tyre Nichols, following a beating by five Memphis black cops, an example of police anti-black “systemic racism.”
Columbia Law professor Kimberle Crenshaw, a proponent of critical race theory, offered this hysterical perspective: “Anyone who knows the history of enslavement, anyone who knows the history of policing knows that black people can do anti-black things. But what we were also trying to bring into the conversation is the structural dimension of anti-black racism, the fact that the incentive structures that are set up in policing are targeting particular communities, black communities.”
“Targeting … black communities”?
In this case, the head targeter is the black female Memphis police chief. As mentioned last week, blacks are 13% of the national population, but in the 75 most populous counties, blacks account for 60% of all homicide and robbery defendants.
Would Professor Crenshaw prefer the police deploy their finite resources to Palm Beach, Florida, or Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts, or Malibu, California? Eighty-one percent of blacks, many the supposed black victims of the targeting, according to Gallup, want the police manpower in their communities to remain the same—or to be increased.
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