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So because of one isolated incident you think all cops in the U.S. act this way and therefore will never visit again? You think what you see on TV isn't just handpicked? and is actually representative of the thousands of pull overs cops perform daily? You think every single black person pulled over gets shot?

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This excuse ("bad apples") is getting pretty old. One anecdote can be discounted. Tens and hundreds of them in the past several years are a bit hard to ignore. US cops are bad. Face it.

The plural of anecdote is not data.

No, but when the plural of anecdote is enough to incite riots in cities and communities, inspire trending hashtags, movements all over a country, enough to put the problem in the International spotlight, it's almost as good.

If the actual data were pointing to the completely opposite conclusion, there would be someone arguing for that. Nobody is.

The original quote is actually the precise opposite of this.

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