MSNBC WRONGLY CLAIMS ‘MAJORITY’ OF POLICE KILLINGS HIT ‘PEOPLE OF COLOR’

On Sunday’s PoliticsNation, after MSNBC legal analyst Paul Butler incorrectly claimed that a “majority” of those killed by police officers are “people of color,” host Al Sharpton later reiterated that it “usually” happens to “people of color.” In fact, according to statistics compiled on police killings for 2015 and 2016, for those cases in which the victim’s race has been identified, more than half those killed were white.

(Posted Tuesday, July 25, 2017 )   <Read it>

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