Fox’s Bolling: ‘Double the Number of White People’ Killed by Cops Compared to Blacks

Fox News’ Eric Bolling offered some perspective on police shootings that one of his co-hosts had some serious objections to.

He invoked a recent study by The Washington Post that more white people were shot and killed by police officers in 2015 than blacks, saying, “double the number of white people are killed by police.”

Juan Williams said that was a “total distortion” and argued that this distorts the facts and requires a more proportional examination.

Bolling countered that it does seem to fit stastically “if you consider the number of crime committed by blacks vs whites.”

There is this somewhat important piece of data in the WaPo findings that’s worth highlighting:

Overall, the majority of the people who have been shot and killed by police officers in 2015 and 2016 were, based on publicly available evidence, armed with a weapon and attempting to attack the officer or someone else.

But an independent analysis of The Post’s data conducted by a team of criminal-justice researchers concluded that, when factoring in threat level, black Americans who are fatally shot by police are no more likely to be posing an imminent lethal threat to the officers at the moment they are killed than white Americans fatally shot by police.

Watch above, via Fox News.

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