Black Lives Matter protesters "Overwhelmingly Peaceful" and "remarkably nonviolent", study finds

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Re: 100s of Black Lives Matter protests remarkably violent, study finds

#21 Post by worcej » Thu Jun 23, 2022 5:33 pm

Octavious wrote:
Fri Jun 11, 2021 1:25 pm
Jamiet99uk wrote:
Fri Jun 11, 2021 12:49 pm
Octavious wrote:
Thu Jun 10, 2021 7:46 pm


Cherry picking? There's a bloody tree full! Of course the writers of this report would count all the leaves as well and declare the tree "overwhelmingly fruitless" :razz:
You conveniently missed the whole part where it identified that a lot of the reported violence (of which there was comparatively little, in totality) was initiated by the police or fascist counter-protesters.
Because it is a complete non statement. The report, in the bit I believe you are referring to, says

In many instances, police reportedly began or escalated the violence, but some observers nevertheless blame the protesters.

which is utterly meaningless. Saying something "reportedly happened" is not the same as saying it happened, merely that someone said it did. The use of the word "many" is again meaningless. How many is many? A dozen? Twenty? Two-Hundred? Who knows?

Sorry, Jamie, but this... what would you even call it? It's not a paper in a peer reviewed journal... the musings of a couple of researchers, perhaps?... this musing is little more than a cynical exercise in using statistics to support an opinion.

Seriously, have a look at John Lott's work. It's pretty much the same junk methodology used to support liberal gun ownership law.
An additional point here is the inclusion of 'or escalated the violence' with regards to police. How did they define escalation here?

Does the example of a protestor throwing rocks/debris at the police and them responding by physically detaining them qualify as escalation?

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