Nope, not thin air. Personal observation sure; but also history classes, history books, newspapers and periodicals, psychology books, research on evolutionary psychology, documentaries, interviews, the Bible, other religious texts, essays, books on racism written by experts on the subject, state and federal codes, law books, supreme court cases, criminal justice texts, poverty texts and essays, family stories from the civil war era and the Great Depression when my family experienced poverty and fear, diaries, animal behavior studies, eavesdropping on conversations, etc.

Pretty much my entire life. I’m extremely well read.

BTW, that psychological prisoner/guard study you cited has been widely discredited.

Also, you failed to address the issue that your article is not a full examination of the issue. You go about explaining how black people are more likely to be criminal mostly due to poverty which leads to these deadly interactions. You fail to examine the police culture of violence and militarization, how the law absolves nearly all instances of deadly force, how police unions have a strangle hold on hiring and firing practices which prevents getting officers out of position before these deadly instances occur, etc.

It’s the sort of sloppy freshman research where one finds research to prove a position rather than doing a full deep dive analysis and then forming an opinion and writing about it. Throwing in all the citations gives the false perception of expertise, when in fact this piece was extremely amateurish.

Go ahead and call me all the names you want. It just shows you have no valid rebuttal.