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The part of the prior sentence I quoted is the explanation for a good chunk of them, I'd wager. Identity politics/social justice/woke-ism/the ideology that refuses to be named/etc. which still dominates the American left right now, demands that all interactions between anyone be analyzed on identity-based oppression-based frameworks, doubly so when it comes to altercations between white people and black people, due to the rather storied and violent history of such things in the United States. In practice, this means that, since black people belong to the "oppressed" category and white to the "oppressor," the evidence and reasoning must be twisted to whatever extent necessary to show that the black person was in the right (a somewhat-common example of this in the man/woman oppressor/oppressed dichotomy is the mantra "believe all women" which got laundered into "believe women" when the fallacious nature of such a statement got too embarrassing). For most people, when the evidence is this stark, the level of twisting required is simply too much and they step off the ride using one of many tools to alleviate cognitive dissonance, but there are plenty others who ride their true belief in their ideology all the way off the cliff.
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