Mehdi Hasan Was Being Fact-checked After His Statements in Racial Crimes

MSNBC Mehdi Hasan has been lashed out because of his statement about racial crimes. He concluded that black-to-black and white-to-white killings have almost the same rate.

BILL MAHER STATEMENT ON SOCIAL CRIMES [PHOTO: THE NEW YORK TIMES]

Mehdi Hasan Criticized Bill Maher’s Statements About Racial Crimes

Mehdi Hasan criticized Maher in his show after saying that crimes in places like Chicago are not controlled and continue. He also said that the government did not do anything to stop it and the media is not talking about it.

According to Bill Maher, the killing of white-to-white people have the same rate as the killings of black-to-black people with who Hasan disagreed. After his Tweets, the Tweeter Community fact-checked his statements.

According to FBI Crime Statistics from 2019, it shows that black on black crimes have a higher rate than white-on-white crimes. Stats also show that there are 2,594 white crimes and 2547 black crimes.

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Bill Maher Faces Backlash After His Statement of Racial Crimes

Bill Maher is an American comedian, writer, television host and actor, producer, and political commentator. But now he is facing backlash from the community after his statement.

According to him, why are more people or celebrities doesn’t talked about black people killing each other? He made Chicago an example of many black people’s crimes.  But according to the statistics, Chicago doesn’t belong to the top 10 or 20 deadliest countries in the world. Many people considered Bill Maher a racist person.

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