KING: White men killed most cops in 2016, conservatives silent | "Instead, 71% of police who've been shot and killed so far in 2016 have been killed by good old-fashioned white men."

You make a valid point, but it isn't really germane to the article. You're citing the typical stats. He's writing about the change in the stats in this year alone, to make a specific point. He's saying cop killings have gone up this year and most of that increase is due to white men. Not to say that white men are "bad" now, that's not the issue. Obviously in any year cop killers are not representative of their race as a whole. But still, if an increase in cop killings had been due to more black killers, we'd likely hear all about it in conservative media. Same thing if the increase was due to latinos or God forbid, Muslims. All we'd hear is how an increase proves that these groups lack respect for the law and deserve to be brought to heel. But when the number of white cop killers goes up...silence. Implying that conservatives are less concerned with cop murders and more concerned with looking for reasons to repress minorities. In reality these numbers represent statistical blip but how that blip gets used or ignored is worthy of comment, at least to Shaun King.

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