Monday, November 23, 2015

The truth!-----Trump takes heat for tweet about black murder rates

Trump takes heat for tweet about black murder rates | TheHill:
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"The message immediately took off on the social media platform, with thousands of people retweeting it and liking it within an hour.
But many also lashed out angrily against the real estate mogul, calling Trump a racist and questioning the veracity of the stats.
Indeed, an initial search to confirm the numbers couldn’t turn up a “Crime Statistic Bureau” in San Francisco.
However, the percentages do, in some ways, align with Department of Justice (DOJ) findings from several years ago. A DOJ study released in 2011 reported that 93 percent of black homicides were committed by other blacks between 1980 and 2008.

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