November 23, 2015

Trump retweets racially charged crime data

Source: CNN

Trump retweets racially charged crime data


Washington (CNN)Donald Trump retweeted an image Sunday that compares black-on-black murders to police killings.

Trump's @realDonaldTrump Twitter account highlighted a photograph featuring a dark-skinned man wearing a bandana, a dark shirt and military-style pants and holding a handgun sideways and claiming to list 2015 crime statistics.

It includes six lines. Two of them: "BLACKS KILLED BY POLICE ~~ 1%" and "BLACKS KILLED BY BLACKS ~~ 97%."

"@SeanSean252: @WayneDupreeShow @Rockprincess818 @CheriJacobus pic.twitter.com/5GUwhhtvyN"
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2015

The figures Trump retweeted overstate the number of homicides committed by blacks.

According to FBI statistics, of the 2,451 homicides of black people in 2014, 90% were committed by black people, while 8% of the offenders were white.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/22/politics/donald-trump-black-crime-police-retweet/index.html

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Amazing. The guy really is something...He just doesn't give a darn how much damage he does to his party.