No, this is not a normal view to have. Actually, it is quite toxic and deeply rooted in privilege and racism. When something happens to him for being a POC, he is going to have a really hard time.
Before I continue, let me say that my comments are not representative of all police. Unfortunately, some are reactive dipshits that make lives hell for everyone.
There are numerous black men and women who are being killed for doing absolutely nothing wrong. During quarantine-period, police raided someone's house without a warrant saying it was that of a criminal, and then killed a woman while she was sleeping. Her and her partner had no involvement whatsoever.
Another man was jogging, model 23-year-old educated black male, was killed by a former officer and his son. No reason at all except racism. I cannot even use the term "running" because then someone could interpret that as "running from a physical situation".
Floyd was murdered with an officer restricting his airflow to his neck. NO ONE should have a knee to the neck. This literally goes against police code.
A "liberal" woman just called the police on a black male Harvard-educated bird watcher who asked her to put her dog on a leash in a park area that specifically says "dogs must be on leash". She literally threatened him with police action prior to that because now police are stereotyped with killing and locking up members of the black community because they are black. He was protected because of video evidence. If this wasn't the heart of NYC, that could have gone in a very different direction.
The police's responsibility is to protect the community. This isn't protection, this is institutionalized and systematic racism in which uninformed officers of the law play cowboys and Indians.
And granted, not every officer is like that. But in the US, in some counties, it takes 12 weeks to be an officer of the law, but 4 years to be a lawyer.
Historically, blacks from everywhere have been at a disadvantage in the US more than desis. Desis get told that we are terrorists, people shoot up gurdwaras and mosques, they get mocked, corner stores get robbed, etc. But these are often by radical right-wing racists who hate POC. Blacks? My god. One small thing and they can easily be labelled "Angry, aggressive, radical, etc."
I cannot remember the specific details, but a black woman was driving her BMW home. Got home, neighbours called the police on her. Now, I don't remember her job, but she was either a senior lawyer or an enterprise company VP. Her white neighbours assumed she didn't own the car and she was breaking into her own house, police came and arrested her, and if I recall, only stopping when her husband came out because he was white. I might be mixing stories... They unfortunately merge together after a while because it is so prevalent.
"No matter how much money you have, no matter how famous you are, no matter how many people admire you, being black in America is tough. And we got a long way to go for us as a society and for us as African-Americans until we feel equal in America." - Lebron, after someone graffiti-ed his house.
The term "Karen" didn't come outta nowhere. Just saying. #blacktwitter
Honestly, it's like if you are a POC, you have to work twice as hard to be recognized as a decent human. If you are black, three times as hard.
They are at an institutionalized disadvantage. Less funding in schools (I believe there are possibly two tiers of school support funding?), less support structures, disproportionate incarceration, legendary cases of jail time from falsely accused murders with no reprocussions, vulnerable population targets from banks and mortgages, less infrastructure support in historically black neighbourhoods. Systematic racism carries down generationally. And then people feed into media goop, alt-sites on the internet, and all that crap.
One of my dad's patients specifically told him "the hardest job I have is being a mother to a black son because everyday I don't know if he'll be coming home." And her son is an educated person, law-abiding (why wouldn't he be) but she's scared that someone (police, racist, gang member) is going to kill her son.
Honestly, if you can, look up systematic racism against blacks. A lot of our idioms in our lingo is actually based on racist terminology.
But yeah, in summary, no, especially if you are black in the US, you do not have to commit a crime to be killed by certain members of the police. If anything, the po-po will either be suspended for a few days with pay, change departments perhaps, or maybe just fired and not put on trial, and if put on trial, no jail time. And will probably get their job back. If we are lucky, they would be sentenced correctly.
Visit Black Twitter on Reddit. Definitely worth a read.
Police shootings are a leading cause of death for black men: https://www.latimes.com/science/story/2019-08-15/police-shootings-are-a-leading-cause-of-death-for-black-men?_amp=true
Controversial police encounters: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2015/04/05/us/controversial-police-encounters-fast-facts/index.html
And just because of long-standing relevance, here is a Fresh Prince scene that has incredible relevance today: https://youtu.be/GTbxVFTDdo0 That was from what, 1991 or something?