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Trump lies again....
Trump lies again.... Notice a trend here? Trump makes dramatic racist lies, again... A day after a black activist was kicked and punched by voters at a Donald Trump rally in Alabama, Trump tweeted an image packed with racially loaded and incorrect murder statistics. The image shows a masked, dark-skinned man with a handgun and a set of points, ostensibly about deaths in 2015: Blacks killed by whites -- 2%; Blacks killed by police -- 1%; Whites killed by police -- 3%; Whites killed by whites -- 16%; Whites killed by blacks -- 81%; Blacks killed by blacks -- 97%’ The image cites the Crime Statistics Bureau - San Francisco None of the numbers are supported by official sources. The figures on black-on-white homicides and white-on-white homicides are wildly inaccurate. And, as several news organizations quickly noted, the Crime Statistics Bureau doesn’t exist. We looked for that agency as well and the closest we found in San Francisco were a number of crime scene clean-up services. Interracial homicides While the image references 2015, the year is not over, and no official numbers have been released. The latest data comes from the FBI for 2014. This table contrasts Trump’s figures with the official ones. Trump Number FBI Number Error factor Blacks killed by whites 2% 8% 4 times Blacks killed by blacks 97% 90% Just a little off Whites killed by whites 16% 82% 5.4 times Whites killed by blacks 81% 15% 5.4 times The most glaring inaccuracies have to do with white homicide victims. Trump cast blacks as the primary killers of whites, but the exact opposite is true. By overwhelming percentages, whites tend to kill other whites. Similarly, blacks tend to kill other blacks. These trends have been observed for decades. Killings by police We also looked at what percentage of each race the police have killed. The official tally of deaths at the hands of law enforcement officers is well known to be incomplete. A study this year by the U.S. Justice Department’s Bureau of Justice Statistics estimated that official counts miss between 30 to 40 percent of all police-related deaths. The Washington Post has worked to fill the gap by compiling a database of police shootings for 2015. The most recent figures from the Post show 414 whites killed, compared to 223 blacks, as of Nov. 23, 2015. Trump’s tweet said police were responsible for 3 percent of all white homicides and 1 percent of all black homicides. If that were true, then applying those percentages to the FBI report of all homicides in 2014, 91 whites would have died at the hands of police and 25 blacks. That’s a ratio of nearly 4-to-1. In contrast, the Washington Post data show slightly less than two white deaths for each black death. One of the official, and incomplete, sources for people killed at the hands of police is the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention<b> violent </font></b>death database. It shows a ratio of about 1.5 white deaths for each black death, in the period 2009 to 2013. Trump’s number is about double the most accurate figures we could find. That makes him about 100 percent off. Parenthetically, the website Little Green Footballs traced the original image back to a Twitter stream that appears to originate in the United Kingdom and features a modified swatiska with the line Should have listened to the Austrian chap with the little moustache. Meaning A. Hitler.... Our ruling Trump tweeted an image that made various statistical claims, including that blacks kill 81 percent of white homicide victims. Almost every number in the image is wrong. The statistics on white victims are exaggerated five-fold. The police-related deaths are off as well. We rate this claim Pants on Fire. |
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11/27/2015 6:29 am |
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I'd like to know how you base that statement that most here are conservative. Did you do a survey here that I'm unaware of? Is that from your same belief that most straight men want to suck cock? When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
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People are entitled to their own opinions, but not their own facts. Trump is just making up facts and too big an ego to admit the truth when caught lying. Reality does matter.
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