Giuliani: ‘White police officers wouldn’t be there if you weren’t killing each other.’ Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Google Plus Share via Email More Options Resize Text Print Article Comments 1955 By Danielle Paquette November 23 Former NYC mayor Rudy Giuliani debated Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson on Meet The Press. Chaos ensued. (NBC News) Former New York mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani had a heated debate with Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson on NBCs Meet the Press on Sunday. (NBC News) Former New York City mayor Rudy Giuliani faced immediate Web backlash Sunday morning after he asked why people protest the killing of unarmed Ferguson, Mo., teenager Michael Brown but not black-on-black crime. “Ninety-three percent of blacks are killed by other blacks,” Giuliani said, triggering a heated argument on NBCs Meet the Press. “I would like to see the attention paid to that that you are paying to this.” Georgetown professor Michael Eric Dyson, a frequent MSNBC pundit, said Giuliani was applying a false equivalency to the situation in Ferguson, where a grand jury will soon decide whether to charge Officer Darren Wilson in Browns shooting death. “Black people who kill black people go to jail,” Dyson said. “White people who are policemen who kill black people do not go to jail.” Watch the full exchange here: “What about the poor black child that was killed by another black child?” Giuliani asked. “Why arent you protesting that?... Why dont you cut it down so that so many white police officers dont have to be in black areas?” “When I become mayor, I’ll do that,” replied Dyson, exasperated. “White police officers wouldn’t be there,” Giuliani said, “if you weren’t killing each other.” The comments followed a Meet the Press segment about disproportionately white police forces serving far more diverse populations. White officers dominate forces in most large U.S. cities, a Washington Post analysis found. Only three out of 53 police officers are black in Ferguson, where two-thirds of the population is black. Most murder in the United States is intra-racial, according to data from the Justice Department: White people are more likely to kill white people, and black people are more likely to kill black people. Nearly 84 percent of white victims from 1980 to 2008 were killed by white assailants, the departments numbers show. During the same period, 93 percent of black victims were murdered by someone of the same race. Some Twitter users responded Sunday with outrage, calling Giuliani’s comments racist.
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