Malphos101

Hopefully OP will answer this but just in case:

It is similar to cochlear implants being controversial with the deaf community because some feel like it is an unwanted attempt to "fix" them when they feel like they aren't "broken". Those who find such procedures controversial in both communities generally equate it to eugenics-lite and feel like its an attempt to destroy their culture they built around their physical features.

Not saying this feeling is right or wrong, just attempting to give the explanation that I have received from asking this same question in the past.

What do you think to gain by posting this AMA?

As for your wondering if reddit will delete this AMA I can almost guarantee they wont because all your speech here will almost certainly be used against you in court. Listen to your lawyers advice (assuming you actually have some) and stop talking to the public.

Its almost never to your advantage to talk about an open civil court case you are involved in.

You assert in your article:

When adjusted to accurately reflect the US population, the totals indicate that black people are being killed by police at more than twice the rate of white and Hispanic or Latino people.

And further down you present your evidence for that claim:

Of the 547 people found by the Guardian to have been killed by law enforcement so far this year, 49.7% were white, 28.3% were black and 15.5% were Hispanic/Latino. According to US census data, 62.6% of the population is white, 13.2% is black and 17.1% is Hispanic/Latino.

Are you really getting that "twice the rate of white and Hispanic or Latino people" figure from comparing the percentage of population to the percentage of those killed?

Wouldn't a more realistic figure compare percentage killed to the percentage of black people who have had police encounters?

It is a known fact that the socioeconomic hole that the black population found themselves in after finally obtaining civil equality in America is the number one contributor to the fact that they lead in police encounter per population in America. I would hope your research for that article would take that into account by putting the number of police killings of black people over the total number of police encounters.

But it is disingenuous to say blacks are killed at "twice the rate" when you get to decide what the applicable variables are and not disclose other conflating factors. That is not good journalism.

The only job US police have is to make arrests and the only job US prosecutors have is to make convictions.

We don't have a justice system, we have a legal system.