Note: Billy has a much better chance of survival due to his skin color.

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    Daniel Shaver was a decade ago.

    It remains that people of colour are more likely to be profiled and prejudiced into a confrontation with police-

    But once in a confrontation with police, it’s “Us vs. Them”.

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      Renée Good and Alex Pretty were this month.

      My argument is not that now suddenly white people in the US experience as much police brutality and arbitrariness as PoC in the US. It just seems the chances of white people surviving such encounters are dropping.