re: LSU Football Supports Social Justice Reform, BLM

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And as far as deaths go, statistics show that those police impact all races equally. They have been posted on here many of times

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If I’ve missed it, has information outside of 2019 (specific to shooting deaths) been cited in these arguments? I don’t think that there is a genuine openness to a different conclusion, but after a cursory Google search:
USA Today Article re: 2013-2019

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MORE THAN 1,000 UNARMED people died as a result of police harm between 2013 and 2019, according to data from Mapping Police Violence. About a third of them were black. About 17% of the black people who died as a result of police harm were unarmed, a larger share than any other racial group and about 1.3 times more than the average of 13%.

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2009-2019 Analysis Article

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Victims were majority white (52%) but disproportionately black (32%) with a fatality rate 2.8 times higher among blacks than whites. Most victims were reported to be armed (83%); however, black victims were more likely to be unarmed (14.8%) than white (9.4%) or Hispanic (5.8%) victims.

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PBS Article re: 2013-2018 Analysis

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According to a study published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences, over the course of a lifetime, black men face a one in 1,000 risk of being killed during an encounter with police, a rate much higher than that of white men.
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Black men and boys face the highest risk of being killed by police–at a rate of 96 out of 100,000 deaths. By comparison, white men and boys face a lower rate of 39 per 100,000 deaths, despite being a bigger portion of the U.S. population.

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Forbes article re: 2015-2020 Analysis