Facing Race: KING 5 reports Black On Black crime

I am pleasantly surprised to see KING 5 Facing Race with a story on some Black-On-Black crime.

An 88-year-old mother was brutally attacked and had her finger bitten off during a broad-daylight robbery in Seattle’s Rainier Beach neighborhood on Oct. 13.

Emma Cotton was on her back porch doing routine chores when she was suddenly attacked by someone who came up from behind.

The hood dragged Cotton into her garage and bit off her finger to take her ring before fleeing. Surveillance cameras captured images of the suspect.

KING could have done a bit more “in-depth reporting” by putting statistics on the screen. But, the crux of the report seemed to be that the victim “forgave” the thug that beat her mercilessly. The sons, not so forgiving. They want justice.

The data below is from the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) program for 2019, focusing on homicide (a key violent crime category). This is the most recent detailed breakdown by race of victim and offender available from reliable sources like the FBI’s Expanded Homicide Data Table 6 (for single victim/single offender incidents where races are known). Comprehensive data for all violent crimes (homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault) by race is not fully published in recent years due to the transition to NIBRS reporting, but homicide provides a representative proxy as most violent crimes follow similar intraracial patterns.
Black-on-Black: 91% of Black victims were killed by Black offenders (approximately 6,425 incidents).
Black-on-White: 566 incidents.
White-on-Black: 246 incidents.

Homicides are predominantly intraracial: 91% for Black victims and 81% for White victims. Black-on-White homicides were about 2.3 times more common than White-on-Black.

For the level of cruelty inflicted on victims like this, the only justice would be to send the thug to the wood chipper.