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Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Are police in the US really so trigger happy against African-Americans, or does it just seem this way to an outsider as such news is more widely proliferated since the Trayvon Martin?
gpt
You've framed the question in such a way that neither answer is correct. Cops don't just go around looking for black kids to kill, and the media only report on it because they know people care about it and they'll tune in.

It's probably most accurate to say that the black population in America is stuck in a cycle of crime and poverty, which in turn causes them to have a disproportionate amount of encounters with police, which in turn engenders racist resentment among both the police and the black community. 

If black people weren't committing such an enormous chunk of America's violent crime, they almost certainly wouldn't be getting shot by police so often, but it they weren't having their families systemically ripped apart by federal drug policy, they almost certainly wouldn't be committing so much violent crime in the first place.