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As News One Now managing editor and former liberal CNN contributor Roland Martin appeared as a guest on Sunday's The Point with Ari Melber on MSNBC, during a discussion of black suspects being shot and killed by police officers, the liberal commentator seemed unaware that more whites than blacks are killed by police as he declared that "it's going to have to take a series of white Americans shot and killed in a similar fashion for America to deal with this issue." When fellow guest Professor Joe Giacalone of John Jay College informed him that, "if you look at the statistics, more people are shot by the police every year," it still didn't sink in as Martin retorted, "I said, 'Killed.'"
Giacalone then informed viewers: "And killed, yes. More white people are killed by the police in this country than black people are." In fact, according to statistics compiled by the Washington Post, only about one in four criminal suspects killed by police are black. The dominant news media just seldomly take the time to highlight the cases of whites or Hispanics being killed.