y, shot a guy with a deadly weapon. I don't need to hear any more evidence. If you'd like to present the evidence, sure, if you need to. But I'm not going to listen to it, because if police shoot somebody with one of those lasers at a protest, I'm not even going to listen to the evidence at all. Innocent. Boom. I'll go right to the verdict. In fact, I'll stand up in the jury box and say not guilty. And then they'll say, um, sir, the trial hasn't started yet. And I'll say, just trying to save time. Anybody here doesn't want to save some time? Because there's no freaking way I'm going to vote against a cop who takes out one of these kids with a laser. Blow it. Take his head right off. It's fine with me. Now it would be bad for your career, bad for your life, might even be bad for the country, but I'd still back you. Still back you if it happens.

And I've often said that one of the big complaints from protesters, which I think has merit, is that the police might treat different ethnicities differently. Apparently the death rate is not treated differently. You know, the number of people killed doesn't seem to matter based on your race. But probably there's some, maybe a little extra abuse. Not maybe — there's certainly extra abuse in Black communities. Obviously it's because they're high-crime neighborhoods. That's a big part of the story. But let's say you just thought that was a problem and you want to reduce the gap. Well, one way would be to have less abuse against Black citizens. That would be ideal, as long as everything else works out. That's of course what you want. But the other way to reduce the gap would be for the police in Portland to just beat the hell out of these protesters with the lasers like once a day, just to get the numbers up. Because the higher we get with the police beating up white Antifa protesters with the lasers — yeah, they have to be doing something bad — the more of those we get, the closer the gap will be. So there may be two problems.