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       Attacks against police officers spike in NYC amid riots

       About twice as many white people as black people are killed by police. In fact, in about 75 percent of police shootings, the decedent is not black.

       Of course, that is not what you would grasp from consuming media.

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       Take the website statista.com, specifically its breathless focus on “Hate crime in the United States” — counterfactually insinuating that any shooting involving a black victim must be a “hate crime.” Here’s their big headline from Tuesday: “Black Americans 2.5X More Likely Than Whites to Be Killed By Police.”

       It is fiction. It is sheer demagoguery, peddled as American cities are besieged by rioters in the wake of George Floyd’s killing by Minneapolis police.

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       The falsity of the claim is demonstrated even by statista.com itself. Just three days ago, the site posted another series of bar graphs, showing that, in fact, whites are nearly twice as likely as blacks to be shot to death by police. Here are the numbers:

       Year White Black

       2017 457 223

       2018 399 209

       2019 370 235

       2020 (so far) 42 31

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       The rest of the bar graphs break out the numbers of Hispanic decedents (slightly lower than black, significantly lower than white), as well as those whose heritage is described as “other” and unknown.

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