This excuse ("bad apples") is getting pretty old. One anecdote can be discounted. Tens and hundreds of them in the past several years are a bit hard to ignore. US cops are bad. Face it.
No, but when the plural of anecdote is enough to incite riots in cities and communities, inspire trending hashtags, movements all over a country, enough to put the problem in the International spotlight, it's almost as good.
If the actual data were pointing to the completely opposite conclusion, there would be someone arguing for that. Nobody is.
