It doesn't happen a lot more, it makes the news a lot more. Everyone in America knows the names of Michael Brown and Eric Garner, but who knows Dillon Taylor? Taylor, aside from being white, differed from the other two in that he was not even a suspect in anything. He simply did not notice a cop accosting him, because he was listening to headphones, and when he hitched up his pants, the cop panicked and gunned him down. The cop was cleared by a grand jury (that proverbial ham sandwich has to be feeling mighty put upon), and the majority white community did not riot or commit any property damage or make death threats against the cop. Unlike James Crawford or Tamir Rice, he did not even brandish a fake gun at cops. All he did was fail to be aware of an inept gunman in a suburban neighborhood.

Meanwhile, last year, despite having maybe one fifth the population of whites, blacks committed about 1,000 more murders outright. The evidence strongly suggests behavior patterns that are much more likely to result in police shootings of their group than any hypothetical attitudes on the part of police officers.