Donald Trump branded a 'racist' after retweeting made-up statistics that claim most white people are killed by black people
- Donald Trump retweeted figures on murders committed by black people
- It said 81 per cent of white murder victims were killed by black offenders
- Tweet also said 16 per cent of white people murdered are killed by whites
- Official FBI figures show that Trump's statistics are wildly wrong
- His 'source', the Crime Statistics Bureau - San Francisco, does not exist
- Tweet originally posted by user with a neo-Nazi logo as their profile picture
Donald Trump has come under fire for retweeting made-up statistics about murders committed by black people.
The Republican presidential candidate was branded 'racist' by critics on Twitter after he re-posted the fake crime figures, which wrongly state that most murders of both black and white people are committed by black killers.
Dozens of people quickly pointed out that not only are the numbers wildly wrong, but the 'source', the Crime Statistics Bureau - San Francisco, does not exist.
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Fake: Donald Trump has come under fire for retweeting these made-up statistics about murders committed by black people
Trump's tweet wrongly stated that most murders of both black and white people are committed by black killers
The image in Trump's tweet is titled 'USA Crime Statistics - 2015'.
It reads: 'Blacks killed by whites - 2%. Blacks killed by police - 1%. Whites killed by police - 3%. Whites killed by whites - 16%. Whites killed by blacks - 81%. Blacks killed by blacks - 97%.'
The tweet also shows an image of a black man with a covered face holding a handgun.
TRUMP FBI | |
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Blacks killed by whites 2% 8% Whites killed by whites 16% 82% Whites killed by blacks 81% 15% Blacks killed by blacks 97% 90% |
According to official statistics collated by the FBI in 2014, 82 per cent of murders with white victims are committed by white people - far higher than what Trump claimed.
Meanwhile less than 15 per cent of white murder victims are killed by black people.
The real figures also show that more than seven per cent of black murder victims are killed by white people. About 90 per cent of black murder victims were killed by black people.
The statistics do not cover all murders in 2014 as they only take into account around 6,000 murders - out of a total of around 12,000 - that were reported to the FBI where the authorities knew the race of the victim and offender.
The tweet was originally posted on Saturday by Twitter user @CheesedBrit, whose Twitter profile picture is a neo-Nazi logo that looks similar to the Swastika.
Trump was branded 'racist' by critics on Twitter after he re-posted the fake crime figures, which wrongly state that most murders of both black and white people are committed by black killers
Caught out: Dozens of people quickly pointed out that the 'source', the Crime Statistics Bureau - San Francisco, does not exist
Hundreds of people spotted Trump's error, with some branding him 'racist'.
Jason Snelson tweeted: 'When you make up 'facts' to fill a racist narrative, it's racist... not hard to put that together.'
Another Twitter user, John Semley, wrote: 'You know there's no such thing as the "Crime Statistics Bureau", right, you clownshoe?'
Trump's tweet comes the day after a Black Lives Matter protester at a speech of his in Birmingham, Alabama, was thrown to the ground and kicked by the Republican front-runner's supporters.
Mercutio Southall Jr claims he was called 'n****r' and 'monkey' by members of the crowd on Saturday. Videos taken during the scuffle do not show this.
'Maybe he should have been roughed up, because it was absolutely disgusting what he was doing,' Trump told Fox News.
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