Trump on Black Americans killed by police: “So are White people”
Washington — In an interview with CBS News on Tuesday, President Trump said the killing of George Floyd was “terrible” but appeared to bristle when asked why Black Americans are “still dying at the hands of law enforcement in this country.”
“So are White people. So are White people. What a terrible question to ask. So are White people,” Mr. Trump told CBS News senior investigative correspondent Catherine Herridge at the White House. “More White people, by the way. More White people.”
Police departments are not required to report comprehensive data on police killings, but researchers have compiled statistics showing Black Americans are more likely to die at the hands of law enforcement than White people. One study published in 2018 found that Black men are roughly 3.5 times more likely to be killed by law enforcement than White men. Another study released in 2019 found that one in 1,000 Black men in the U.S. can expect to die at the hands of police over the course of their lifetimes.
A study by Harvard researchers published in late June found that the number of White people killed by the police between 2013 and 2017 was higher than any other demographic. But White people constitute a larger portion of the population than Black people, and the study also showed that Black people were three times more likely to be killed by law enforcement officers than White Americans.
Mr. Trump’s comments come after weeks of nationwide protests against police brutality and racial violence instigated by the death of Floyd, an unarmed Black man who was killed in Minneapolis after a White police officer pressed a knee to his neck for almost nine minutes. Mr. Trump said he believed Floyd’s death was “terrible” in the interview with Herridge.
Mr. Trump’s critics have accused him of overtly appealing to white supremacists through his continued defense of the Confederate flag and statues of Confederate officials. Mr. Trump said in Tuesday’s interview that he believed the debate over the flag is a freedom of speech issue.
“All I say is freedom of speech. It’s very simple. My attitude is freedom of speech. Very strong views on the Confederate flag. With me, it’s freedom of speech. Very simple. Like it, don’t like it, it’s freedom of speech,” Mr. Trump said. He previously said in 2015 that he believed the Confederate flag should be in a museum.
When asked if he would be “comfortable” with supporters displaying the Confederate flag at his campaign events, Mr. Trump demurred.
“You know, it depends on what your definition is. But I am comfortable with freedom of speech. It’s very simple,” Mr. Trump said.
Herridge pressed the president on whether he understood “why the flag is a painful symbol for many people because it’s a reminder of slavery.”
“Well, people love it and I don’t view — I know people that like the Confederate flag and they’re not thinking about slavery. I look at NASCAR — you go to NASCAR, you had those flags all over the place. They stopped it,” Mr. Trump said, referring to the decision by NASCAR to ban the Confederate flag from its events. The president has also criticized Bubba Wallace, NASCAR’s only Black full-time driver, saying Wallace should apologize for an incident involving a noose that was discovered in his garage stall at a speedway in Alabama.
“I just think it’s freedom of speech, whether it’s freedom of speech, whether it’s Confederate flags or Black Lives Matter or anything else you want to talk about. It’s freedom of speech,” Mr. Trump continued.
Catherine Herridge sure has a long track record of representing the deep state’s propaganda in the media. She’s not a journalist. She is an employee of dark and evil forces.
“Microphone bitch” couldn’t hold a candle to Trump’s track record of deep state shilling, financial crimes, and lifetime of malfeasance.
It isn’t good vs. evil at this point, it’s just evil feeding on evil.
http://dissident-mag.com/2020/07/10/how-political-outsider-donald-trump-and-roger-stone-worked-together-to-elect-george-w-bush/
http://dissident-mag.com/2020/07/13/how-trump-and-stone-used-al-sharpton-to-rig-2004-democratic-primary/
What’s the matter Bimbo, someone struck a nerve? Looks like you have a lot of sore nerves today and all you reply with are idotic cartoons because you can’t refute anything. Boo Hoo.
Flea in his usual state…..
True, but what is your alternative?
Just curious.
Enjoy the Redpill….
When you wake and open your eyes, You will see things as they truly are, and not as what others want you to believe.
Share the Redpill with as many as you can, time is short and our appointed hour is almost upon us,,,,
Has anyone wondered if black people should be removed because they are a very painful reminder of slavery?
Boy, if that doesn`t nail it.
Enough is enough is enough.
Has anyone wondered if black people should be removed because they are a very painful reminder of slavery?
Damn son, you have offered up the best solution to the problem yet…..
My solution? Get all the whites from South Africa to the united States and sent the 13% of the population blacks to SA.!
This is hilarious. 4 months ahead of the election, and with simply awful poll numbers, Trump finally mentions the people who voted, fought and bled for him. What an asshole.
Why yes, those simply awful poll numbers…kinda like during the 2016 election poll numbers? Guess you don’t like him defending white people either. Orange Man Bad….says the eternal NPC
Once in 4 years has Trump mentioned white people, and that’s in an unscripted, offhand reply to a question. You worship a dirtbag traitor who isn’t worthy of your support.
Worship? Now you’re being truly stupid. Do you know what a bulwark is? Are you capable of understanding consequences? You think Trump is bad and by bashing him it will secure a better result for president? Do you have eyes? Have you seen the democrats and their minions in action?
While you bash Trump incessantly you seem to not understand the dynamic playing out should he lose. Spare me the bullshit about how he’s a traitor, you won’t know what hit you if you get a democrat in office. You think Trump is bad? Then you don’t have any understanding or concept of what bad is.
Gosh you’re stupid.
Flea in his usual state….
If Blacks keep pushing Communism, there will be a million times more killed than what the Police are doing.
“NASCAR’s only Black full-time driver, saying Wallace should apologize for an incident involving a noose that was discovered in his garage stall at a speedway in Alabama.”
As if it were true.
Agreed. Poorly written to omit the fact that it was never a noose and that Wallace is a fraud that tried to stir the racism pot that much more. But other than that…
As a citizen of Missouri I urge Gov. Mike Parson to intervene in the prosecution of the people in St. Louis who defended their home by showing firearms. Parson is hiding behind Trumps skirt hinting that Trump could intervene. Gov. Parsonannounce that they will be pardoned if charges are filed.
Not likely because Parson is governor because of his political ally Kim Gardener filing corrupt false charges against Governor Greitens. Do nothing corrupt Republican thieves in Missouri.
Republicans are like the White Horse and Rider, they have a Bow but no arrows.
This is just trump PR throwing his Moonies a Mini Doggie Bisquit to keep them sedated.
.22’s bottom cartoon sums it all up.
Trump should just shut his mouth or start doing what he advocated 4 years ago.
Your 75 I Q is showing.
Flea in his usual state….
You’ve never refuted anything we’ve said about Donny Boy, Commie tactics is all you have.
You and your Ilk are the ones who will gladly round up true conservatives and send us to the Guillotines
For the last time, you ignorant fool….I don’t care what Trump has or hasn’t done at this point in time….NOT ONE WHIT. You aren’t intelligent enough to understand that attitude and attempting to explain it to you would be like trying to teach a pig to sing. Impossible. You and your cadre are one trick ponies, lacking in intelligence and easily manipulated.
As to sending you to the guillotine? I will leave that to those who come into power when there is no Trump around, and they WILL come into power because idiots like you did nothing but whine and bash Trump.
There you go again repeating what I called you because you have no original thoughts.
You claim you don’t care what Trump has done at this point. Proof enough you’re a dim bulb.
https://truthtopowernews.com/united-states-africa-black-crime-wave-overwhelms-virtually-all-major-american-cities-n3889
“The unopposed Africanization of the United States is happening on Donald Trump’s watch. While the president tweets “Law & Order” almost once a day, his administration is doing nothing. His party has no plan for restoring order in the country either. In fact, Trump’s campaign has decided to join the NAACP and Black Lives Matter in calling Joe Biden “racist” for supporting the 1994 crime bill, which dramatically reduced violent crime in the country.”
The unopposed ‘Afrikanization’ happened with Obama, was placed firmly in place with Obama and, are you ready? The democrats.
Why interfere when your enemy is destroying himself? What are the optics in those black democrat run cities? You think potential voters are wanting to vote for democrats when they look at those cities? All Trump has to do is let them destroy themselves.
The country isn’t in disorder, BTW, despite the histrionics of the author of that sterling bit of journalism. Nope, the country is scooting along, except for the big city democrat shit holes. Trump even said he wasn’t going to interfere in said cities after being told to piss off by the mayors of said cities. He offered help, they rejected it. But don’t let that fact affect or slow down your Trump bashing….
cliffie,
trump has done a helluva lot considering the obstructionism & hatred he’s had to put up with–
I’ll vote 3rd party yet again but would any leader in business, politics, etc. mention this? Of course not. They are gutless pussies. So, Trump gets credit for speaking truth.
Trump should announce that if he is re-elected, he will force people in government, media, etc. to literally kiss his ass. Bring in a different loser each week and live stream them kissing his ass. I saw this with Vince McMahon like 20 years ago and it was the funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
And, honestly, at this point on our road to destruction, why the fuck not?
MyGirl, takes guts to constantly show up, hat tip, you have earned it.
Same to Trump, that statement took guts, not even Tucker will say it, hat tip to him as well.
It will certainly get worse, the hatred will go supernova before this chapter ends.
Otto:
These little crybabies don’t have a clue, all they are is an ‘orange man bad’ clique, an echo chamber that reinforces itself. They obviously have no imagination and aren’t capable of seeing beyond their limited snits. They don’t understand consequences either because while they bitch constantly about how Trump has disappointed them (poor little babies) they are incapable of understanding where things will go sans Trump. They live in a fantasy world, a world where they hope some perfect leader will rise up and carry the country to victory and the way it was fifty years ago.
If these shallow minds get the democrat they’re hoping for they’re really gonna have something to bitch about. Only problem with them getting the democrat is that their stupidity will also impact me.
Who doesn’t have a clue?
The unopposed Africanization of the United States is happening on Donald Trump’s watch. While the president tweets “Law & Order” almost once a day, his administration is doing nothing. His party has no plan for restoring order in the country either. In fact, Trump’s campaign has decided to join the NAACP and Black Lives Matter in calling Joe Biden “racist” for supporting the 1994 crime bill, which dramatically reduced violent crime in the country.
How many times you going to cut and paste that drivel? Your source is pathetic and wrong, as usual.
whats more wrong? thinking a man who has been a dem his entire life, given millions to their causes and campaigns, attended their parties and flown on their pedo planes is probably not on “our” side? or that he suddenly changed sides in order to become president and has accomplished fuck all (taking no advantage of what he is legally allowed to do) only because his former friends and allies are all operating against him? orange man bad indeed.
Honestly, could we have a president that can make a logical sentence?
It’s not going to happen as Biden has dementia and Trump has foot in mouth disease.
Any President that could make a logical sentence would obviously be a white supremasist, so there is that.
We need a Benevolent Dictator to pull America out of the bottom of the Out House: finish the Wall, bring the jobs and troops back home, reform Welfare, scrap the public school system and give parents vouchers, audit the Fed and Ft Knox, end Affirmative Discrimination, stop the MSM and Social Media Censorship and make them like the Telephone Companies, drain the damned swamp of liberals top to bottom.
Franco was right.
this is why trump is sitting back–people who actually vote are scared & disgusted–both the house & senate are in play,which is good 4 the republicans–
12 minute video
Fact : 56% of murders and violent crimes committed in the US are done by black males between the ages of 15 to 35 !
Blacks are less than 15% of the US population and this age demographic is between 4 & 5% of the black population .
Excuse after excuse for the treatment of black individuals by law enforcement , courts and prison sentences does not change reality !
More is spent per student in the Baltimore City School System and the students that succeed have active hands on parents . Then there is the majority that have street thug parents and feral animals for offspring . There is you 4 to 5% that are generally only suitable to be kept in cages feed by shovels , hosed off occasionally and poked with sticks for our amusements .
“3 times more likely than white people” sounds nice, except I might note that the ratio of black people committing crimes vs. white people is what matters, not the absolute population percentage.
If black people are committing 3 times more crimes than white people, it stands to reason that they’re going to be (rightfully) exposed to risk from police enforcement 3 times more.
Yes, it is likely true that black people are prosecuted more often and severely, but nonetheless it is the crime ratio which matters, not the “shot by” racial ratio.