The Numbers Don’t Lie: White People Are Not More Likely than Black People to Be Killed by Police

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When he was asked this week why Black people are “still dying at the hands of law enforcement” in the U.S., President Donald Trump responded by focusing on white people who had been killed by police.

“So are white people. So are white people. What a terrible question to ask. So are white people,” Trump told CBS News in an interview on Tuesday. “More white people, by the way. More white people.”

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