In a pair of interviews, Trump highlights white victimhood

7/16/20
 
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from The Washington Post,
7/14/20:

Asked about police killings of black Americans, Trump replies: What about whites?

This isn’t incorrect, but it also isn’t the point.

The Washington Post has been tracking fatal police shootings — a category of events that excludes deaths like Floyd’s — since 2015. Over that time, we’ve tallied more than 5,000 such incidents, a bit less than half of which have led to the deaths of white suspects. Those shot and killed by police have been white almost twice as often as they’ve been black.

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