Just a day after Donald Trump was cheered as a "Black Lives Matter" protester was beaten and kicked out of his rally in Alabama, the GOP frontrunner tweeted out a questionable graphic showing murder statistics based on race.
GOP front-runner Donald Trump tweeted inaccurate crime statistics on Sunday, prompting a wave of backlash on social media.
The image, titled "USA Crime Statistics ~ 2015," shows a dark-skinned man with a bandana and a face mask holding a gun, and is sourced to the "Crime Statistics Bureau San Francisco." It indicates the percentage of murders by race, specifically between blacks and whites.
On the image, it claims 16% of white people are killed by other Caucasians, while 81% of white people are killed by black people.
But statistics from the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation show a different picture.
Donald Trump tweets a questionable "USA Crime Statistics" about black murder rates.
The statistics that Trump seemed to support had a huge margin of error: by about 66%, for both claims. From the FBI's 2014 report on U.S. homicides, of the 3,021 Caucasian murder victims, 2,488 of their assailants were white, or 82%.
Trump's statistics ring just as wrong for whites killed by blacks. While the fear-mongering graphic claims it's at 81%, it's really 15%, according to the FBI's statistics much less than the mogul's tweet would suggest.
The other "data" suggested blacks killed by whites were at 2% while blacks killed by blacks were at 97%. Again, wrong.
The real numbers behind blacks killed by whites in 2014 are at least three times more than Trump's tweet suggested, at 7%. Blacks killed by blacks are 7% less than the bogus numbers in the presidential candidate's tweet, at 89%.
The image itself is based off phony numbers. While it's cited from San Francisco's "Crime Statistics Bureau" as data from 2015, the city's annual police reports end at 2014and do not break down homicides by race. A San Francisco police spokesperson told the Daily News the department "did not release this information" and are "not sure where their stats came from."
The tweet was originally sent by @SeanSean252 in a threaded argument about white supremacists to support his point of view.
In replies to Trump's controversial tweet, users have called him out on sharing the bogus numbers as if they were fact.
This comes just a day after Trump was cheered as a "Black Lives Matters" protester was beaten and kicked out at his rally in Birmingham, Ala.
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GOP front-runner Donald Trump tweeted inaccurate crime statistics on Sunday, prompting a wave of backlash on social media.
The image, titled "USA Crime Statistics ~ 2015," shows a dark-skinned man with a bandana and a face mask holding a gun, and is sourced to the "Crime Statistics Bureau San Francisco." It indicates the percentage of murders by race, specifically between blacks and whites.
On the image, it claims 16% of white people are killed by other Caucasians, while 81% of white people are killed by black people.
But statistics from the Justice Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation show a different picture.
Donald Trump tweets a questionable "USA Crime Statistics" about black murder rates.
The statistics that Trump seemed to support had a huge margin of error: by about 66%, for both claims. From the FBI's 2014 report on U.S. homicides, of the 3,021 Caucasian murder victims, 2,488 of their assailants were white, or 82%.
Trump's statistics ring just as wrong for whites killed by blacks. While the fear-mongering graphic claims it's at 81%, it's really 15%, according to the FBI's statistics much less than the mogul's tweet would suggest.
The other "data" suggested blacks killed by whites were at 2% while blacks killed by blacks were at 97%. Again, wrong.
The real numbers behind blacks killed by whites in 2014 are at least three times more than Trump's tweet suggested, at 7%. Blacks killed by blacks are 7% less than the bogus numbers in the presidential candidate's tweet, at 89%.
The image itself is based off phony numbers. While it's cited from San Francisco's "Crime Statistics Bureau" as data from 2015, the city's annual police reports end at 2014and do not break down homicides by race. A San Francisco police spokesperson told the Daily News the department "did not release this information" and are "not sure where their stats came from."
The tweet was originally sent by @SeanSean252 in a threaded argument about white supremacists to support his point of view.
In replies to Trump's controversial tweet, users have called him out on sharing the bogus numbers as if they were fact.
This comes just a day after Trump was cheered as a "Black Lives Matters" protester was beaten and kicked out at his rally in Birmingham, Ala.
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