Read on Twitter
Not so long ago, Donald Trump claimed that more white people die at the hands of law enforcement than African Americans. Is he lying? Rhetorical question; Of course he is. Let’s use #Python to find out how. #BlackLivesMatter 
https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt=""> https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jul/14/donald-trump-george-floyd-police-killings">https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2...
If we use the absolute numbers we’ll see that more white people are killed than any other race. Why? They comprise around 60% of the population. African Americans make up for about 12%. Not taking demographics into account is misleading. #Python #BlackLivesMatter https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">
" title="If we use the absolute numbers we’ll see that more white people are killed than any other race. Why? They comprise around 60% of the population. African Americans make up for about 12%. Not taking demographics into account is misleading. #Python #BlackLivesMatter https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
You can check out @KFF to see the population distribution in the US by race/ethnicity. https://www.kff.org/other/state-indicator/distribution-by-raceethnicity/">https://www.kff.org/other/sta...
You’d expect the president of the US to understand how rates work in this situation: Police Victims / Size of the population among which the deaths occured. We multiply that by 1 million and… #Python #BlackLivesMatter https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">
" title="You’d expect the president of the US to understand how rates work in this situation: Police Victims / Size of the population among which the deaths occured. We multiply that by 1 million and… #Python #BlackLivesMatter https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">" class="img-responsive" style="max-width:100%;"/>
Conclusions: maybe don’t say something dumb when all eyes are on you and any random guy like me can go and prove you wrong with data because he thinks it’s fun? #Python
Check out http://mappingpoliceviolence.org"> http://mappingpoliceviolence.org for more info. That’s where I got my data from. It’s an amazing project that sheds more light on the situation. #BlackLivesMatter https://abs.twimg.com/hashflags... draggable="false" alt="">
