Analysis: Kayleigh McEnany tries to clean up Trump’s comment about police killing 'more white people'
But what does that data show? Not precisely what Trump or even McEnany suggested — even if you ignore the whole per capita thing.four times as many white, non-Hispanic people
in this country as black people . In other words, the numbers McEnany cited suggest unarmed black people are still more than twice as likely to be killed by police as unarmed white people. It also needs to be noted that the 2020 numbers are incomplete. That’s in part because the year is only half over and in part because this is based upon a method that can lag behind the actual events. Because there is no central database on this kind of thing, The Post in 2015 began tallying data using local news reports, law enforcement websites, social media and other data-collecting sources, while also conducting its own reporting in many cases.
And indeed, if you look at the first three years of the Trump administration — years for which we actually have complete racial data — police killed 59 unarmed black men, compared with 81 unarmed white men. That would again mean unarmed black men were significantly more likely to be killed by police, even more than the numbers McEnany cited.
McEnany’s numbers, though, were cherry-picked even more than that. The question from CBS News’s Catherine Herridge in Trump’s interview this week wasn’t about
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