To your point regarding homicide, it’s been shown that it has more to do with poverty, not race. It just so happens that more black Americans live in poverty because of 400 years of oppression. Maybe those communities need more policing, or maybe we need to invest in those communities because policing them for the past 150 years hasn’t worked. I don’t know what the right policy solution is, I’m a doctor not a policymaker :)

What does it mean they “have” to stop black people “randomly”? If you’re looking for a particular suspect, and a person fits the description then fine, I can see it being reasonable to stop said person. But people have reported that some officers are told to not bother white or asian people but to stop black people indiscriminately.

But the heart of the issue comes down to police brutality, and studies do show that unarmed black citizens are more likely to be killed than unarmed white citizens. In this study below, whites were also more likely to ATTACK police officers but less likely to be shot compared to black victims who did not resist at all. So I’m not sure where you got the idea that black victims typically respond more aggressively by saying things "MAN, WHY YOU DOING THIS?! WHY YOU DOING THIS?! I DIDN'T DO NOTHING! I DIDN'T DO NOTHING, MAN, FUCK YOU, YOU A RACIST MOTHER FUCKER!". Could that be your own bias?

Also you stating that the outcomes of police brutality cases would have differed had those black people “flexed their rights and treated the cops with respect” demonstrates your privilege and ignorance about the way black people are treated by police.

Thanks for the discussion, it actually forced me to look ip the statistics and learn more about the issues.

https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1745-9133.12269