What do you think of this reasoning?
Johnson (who is white) said that because Black men are more likely to be arrested for crimes than white men, her son would likely be watched more carefully by police officers, but instead of decrying this as racism, she praised it as “smart.”
“Statistically, I look at our prison population and I see that there is a disproportionately high number of African-American males in our prison population for crimes, particularly for violent crimes,” she said. “So statistically, when a police officer sees a brown man like my Jude walking down the road… because of the statistics that he knows in his head, that these police officers know in their head, they’re going to know that statistically my brown son is more likely to commit a violent offense over my white sons.
That makes that police officer smart, because of statistics.”
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