Really. Tasers are race neutral. So, the fact that Houston police taser black people more than whites is not evidence of racism. Honest to God, that’s the truth, at least according to a Houston Police official, and why would he lie?
Of 1,417 Taser deployments by officers between December 2004 and June 2007, nearly 67 percent were used on black suspects, according to an audit conducted for the city by a team of criminology, statistics and mathematics experts. About 25 percent of Houston’s population is black. […]
Minister Robert Muhammad, with the southwest regional headquarters for The Nation of Islam, said the study shows that police are more apt to use the weapons on black suspects than suspects of other races.
“Can we say it’s racism? Yes, and some people would argue no,” said Muhammad. “The greater argument is abuse of authority. We give them authority to protect us. But instead of using that authority to protect us, they abuse us with it.”
Houston police said their use of Tasers was not tied to race, but to a person’s behavior.
“It’s not a racial issue. A Taser device is no different from a radar gun. It’s race neutral,” Executive Assistant Police Chief Charles McClelland said after the Houston City Council meeting during which the report was released.
The study found that black officers were less likely than white or Hispanic officers to use Tasers on a black suspect.
Yeah, it’s all the fault of those misbehavin’ black folks that the police (except for black police officers, natch) had to taser their asses. We all know they got what was coming to them. So hard these days being a poor police officer in America. People question you for the smallest bullshit. Don’t they know that our law enforcement officials are all that stand between us and the (cough — colored – cough) barbarian hordes?*
* Not to mention all the punk ass liberal pinko commie hippy barbarians, too.
