It’s been quite a day on the hysterical liberal racism front. Food is racist, chess is racist, and now facts are racist. President Trump was asked about people dying at the hands of the police and mentioned that more white people are killed by cops than any other race in this country. This is 100% true but because Trump said it and it flies in the face of the Black Lives Matter/liberal media narrative, the left has decided it is racist. So yes, the truth is a white supremacist hate crime now.
.@CBS_Herridge: Why are African Americans still dying at the hands of law enforcement in this country?
@realDonaldTrump: And so are white people. So are white people. What a terrible question to ask. So are white people. More white people, by the way. More white people. pic.twitter.com/Tu4QHStxPx— Nicole Sganga (@NicoleSganga) July 14, 2020
President Trump did an interview with Catherine Herridge of CBS and was asked about the recent police killings that have made scumbags destroy our cities.
“Let’s talk about George Floyd, You said George Floyd’s death was a terrible thing,” said Herridge.
“Terrible,” confirmed Trump.
“Why are African Americans still dying at the hands of law enforcement in this country?” Herridge asked.
“And so are white people. So are white people. What a terrible question to ask. So are white people. More white people, by the way. More white people,” said Trump.
Guess what? Trump is right. More white people are killed every year by police than black people. Here’s some fun stats for the liberal media fact-checkers:
2017 People shot to death by police:
457 – white
223 – black
179 – Hispanic
44 – other
2018 People shot to death by police:
399 – white
209 – black
148 – Hispanic
36 – other
2019 People shot to death by police:
370 – white
235 – black
158 – Hispanic
39 – other
2020 (through June) People shot to death by police:
204 – white
105 – black
66 – Hispanic
15 – other
During Trump’s presidency 1,430 white people have been killed by law enforcement officers while 772 black people have died. Math tells us that 1,430 is more than 772.
The liberal media however disputes this and thinks that Trump is being racist for stating this fact. Check out The New York Times:
President Trump added to his long record of racially inflammatory comments during an interview with CBS News, in which he brushed off a question about Black people killed by police officers, saying that white people are killed in greater numbers https://t.co/ldqLpXjDpS
— The New York Times (@nytimes) July 15, 2020
And The Hill decided to fat-check Trump’s statement by ignoring the fact of his statement:
Trump’s answer to CBS papered over statistics showing that Black Americans are more likely to be killed at the hands of police than white Americans. While police departments are not mandated to record statistics on police killings, various studies have pointed to how police killings have disproportionately affected African Americans.
A study published by Harvard researchers in June that analyzed data from 2013 to 2017 found Black Americans were more than three times more likely than white Americans to be killed by police.
A Washington Post analysis updated earlier this year found that the rate at which Black Americans are killed by law enforcement officers is more than twice as high as the rate for their white counterparts…
Trump never said anything about proportions, he simply stated that more white people are killed by police than black people. Perhaps Harvard and the Washington Post can do a study on how basic math works.
Considering that 99.99% of all police shootings are justified uses of force, I’m going to respectfully disagree with the liberal media idiots that blacks are disproportionately killed by law enforcement. The correct number of black people are killed by police every year because they die attacking cops and resisting arrest. If anything, the number is a little light.
