Recently, Rudy Giuliani raised some eyebrows when he got in a heated discussion with Michael Eric Dyson on Meet the Press. He was discussing the killing of Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri and said the following: “Ninety-three percent of blacks in America are killed by other blacks. We’re talking about the exception here.”
Personally, I didn’t think pointing this out was especially illuminating or helpful given the racial angle on the controversy in Ferguson. However, the Washington Post’s Michelle Ye Hee Lee decided to fact check Giuliani’s statistic and gave it two Pinocchios. Why?:
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