Donald Trump Blames Crime On Latinos, Blacks
By Huffington Post Latino Voices
The statistics that Fox pundit Bill O’Reilly cited appear to come from the 2012 New York City Enforcement Report compiled by the police department. The report says that of the 662 shooting suspects for which a race or ethnicity was known, 78.2 percent were black, while 18.9 percent were Hispanic and 2.4 percent were white.
Though national figures crime are far less skewed, Trump went on to tweet that the “overwhelming amount of violent crime in our major cities is committed by blacks and [H]ispanics” and invited his Twitter followers to discuss the “tough subject.”
This article was first published in Huffington Post Latino Voices.
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