Fox “News” host Tucker Carlson Wednesday declared that Black people don’t actually fear for their lives in America, claiming that the feelings of Black people are a “demonstrable lie,” reports Media Matters.
After playing reactions from MSNBC commentators to the Louisville grand jury failing to hold any police officer accountable for the death of Breonna Taylor, Carlson claimed “statistics” don’t support the claim of Black people fearing for their lives. It’s unclear what “statistics” measure people’s attitudes.
Carlson also claimed that “the fact that hundreds of thousands of people every year move here who are Black, to the United States, is living refutation.”
Carlson, of course, is proven wrong by various studies, including one from the National Institutes of Health that concluded Black people are 2.8 times more likely to die at the hands of police than whites.