Eric Zemmour likes to blow on the embers of the controversy. The editorialist with reactionary leanings spoke on CNews, in the program "Face à l'Info", about the death of George Floyd, and the riots that followed. After pointing out that the victim of a "homicide" was not a "partridge of the year" with his locker "5 years in prison for armed assault", the polemicist, who debated with the former member of the CSA Christine Kelly castigated the "French" representations of racial tensions across the Atlantic.
“In France, we think that white cops attack and kill blacks. This is largely false, "said Eric Zemmour, before continuing:" The American figures reveal that blacks are first killed by blacks, 97%. White people are twice as likely to be killed as black people. 80% of whites are killed by blacks while blacks are killed mainly by blacks […]. "
Zemmour: "#GeorgeFloyd is not a partridge of the year, he has already had 5 years in prison". #FaceALinfo pic.twitter.com/MIol1wbcOt
- Ernst Lug 👌🏿 😏 (@ErnstLug) June 1, 2020"American cops are not French cops, they have an easy trigger. 40% to 50% of those killed by the police are white. Blacks represent 14% of the American population and 40% of the incarcerated, “insists the writer.
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The problem is that the figures mentioned by the former journalist for Le Figaro are completely false. These are false statistics attributed to the FBI which had circulated widely during the 2016 presidential campaign. Donald Trump had even tweeted these pseudo-figures, fact-checked, however, many times by the press.
On June 1, National Rassemblement deputy Aymeric Chauprade had already taken up this data on his own to fuel a "backfire" to the controversy over the death of George Floyd.
US Justice Statistics 2018: 2% black victims killed by whites, 1% by police, 97% by blacks.
81% white victims killed by blacks, 3% by police 16% by whites. Stop misinformation on #BlackLivesMatter? We must stop believing the lies of the left!
But now, the reality was quite different in 2015, according to real FBI figures: 8% of blacks killed by whites (against 2% according to Aymeric Chauprade and Trump), 82% of whites killed by whites (against 16%) , 15% of whites killed by blacks (against 81%) and finally 90% of blacks killed by blacks (against 97%), the only figure truly close to statistical reality.
Black men 2.5 times more likely to be killed
To drive the point home, Check News, made the calculations based on 2018 FBI criminal data, and only 15.5% of whites were killed by blacks that year. Very far from the 80% of Eric Zemmour therefore.
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Finally, according to a study conducted by the American Academy of Sciences, between 2013 and 2018, black men are 2.5 times more likely to be killed by the police during their lifetime than white men, compared to their percentage of the population.
