唐纳德·特朗普总统周一，在接受哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访时，他越来越倾向于自卫，并声称“死于执法人员之手的白人比黑人多”，尽管事实是手无寸铁的黑人比白人更有可能死于警察之手。
当被哥伦比亚广播公司记者凯瑟琳·赫里奇问及为什么非洲裔美国人仍然死在执法人员手中时，特朗普回击道:“白人也是，白人也是，问这个问题太可怕了。”说。
特朗普继续说:“白人也是，顺便说一句，白人越多，白人就越多。”
总统对这一问题的反应非同寻常，称之为“可怕”，因为国家正在对种族貌相和警察暴行进行清算，除此之外，这一声明似乎具有误导性和种族敏感性。
2020年7月14日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在华盛顿白宫玫瑰园的新闻发布会上发表讲话。乔纳森·恩斯特/路透社
有一个研究机构警察过度射杀美国黑人。
今年3月，东北大学健康科学和流行病学教授、资深枪支暴力研究员马修·米勒(Matthew Miller)博士共同撰写了一份关于2014年至2015年间被警察开枪打死的平民的研究报告。
每年大约有1000人被警察开枪打死，在分析了这些死亡后，米勒和他的合著者发现美国黑人被警察开枪打死的可能性是他们在人口中所占比例的两倍。
以前的研究，包括《华盛顿邮报》的致命力量项目自2015年以来记录了致命的警察枪击事件，对于警察过度杀害美国黑人得出了类似的结论。
研究人员发现，在新的研究中，美国黑人在与警察的互动中被警察开枪打死的可能性是普通人的三倍，在这种互动中，受害者似乎对警察几乎没有或根本没有威胁。
总统接着为悬挂南部邦联的旗帜辩护说:“人们喜欢它，我知道人们喜欢南部邦联的旗帜，他们不考虑奴隶制，我看全美赛车联合会，那里到处都是国旗。”
特朗普没有透露他对国旗的个人观点，只是重申他坚持支持“言论自由。”
2020年7月13日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普在华盛顿特区白宫东厅的执法会议上发表讲话。奥利弗·孔特雷拉斯/锡帕/彭博通过盖蒂图像
“我说的都是言论自由，很简单，我的态度是言论自由。对邦联旗帜的强烈看法。对我来说，这是言论自由，非常简单。喜欢，不喜欢，这是言论自由，”
特朗普说:“我对言论自由感到满意，这很简单。”
在另一个采访本周一，特朗普总统在与保守派媒体《市政厅》的一次谈话中，为圣路易斯的一对白人夫妇用枪指着在他们官邸前游行的抗议者的行为进行了激烈的辩护。
奥巴马总统在谈到这对夫妇时表示:“如果他们运气好的话，他们会被打得很惨，如果他们运气好的话，他们会被打得很惨。”他继续说:“房子将被彻底洗劫，并可能烧毁，就像他们试图烧毁教堂。”
在为这对夫妇辩护时，特朗普声称他们合法拥有枪支，并称他们可能因自己的行为被起诉是一种“耻辱”。
特朗普说:“这些站在那里的人从来没有使用过它，他们是合法的，武器，现在我了解到有人在当地，他们想起诉这些人。”
同样在哥伦比亚广播公司新闻采访中，特朗普回应越来越多的学区选择在秋季保持在线，他说这是一个错误，并认为他们的决定是为了在政治上伤害他。
2020年7月7日，美国总统唐纳德·特朗普和第一夫人梅兰妮·特朗普在白宫东厅与学生、教师和行政人员一起参加一项活动，讨论如何在新型冠状病毒大流行期间安全地重新开放学校。随着COVID-19案例在佛罗里达州、得克萨斯州、路易斯安那州、南卡罗来纳州和亚利桑那州等南部各州激增，特朗普与来自全国各地的客人一起讨论如何负责任地重返教室。奇普·索莫杰维拉/盖蒂图像公司
当被问及他会对那些担心回去亲自指导不安全的父母和老师说什么时，总统声称人们会因为呆在家里而“死亡”。
“我会告诉家长和老师，你应该找一个新的人，不管是谁来负责这个决定，因为这是一个可怕的决定，因为孩子和家长也正因为这种创伤而死去，他们正在死去，因为他们不能做他们正在做的事情。”妈妈们不能去上班，因为她们突然不得不呆在家里看孩子。”
他说，不重开学校的决定是出于政治目的，目的是伤害他，并坚持认为学校必须开放。
他补充说:“我还说，像这样的决定是政治，因为我们开始做得很好，在民意调查中，因为我的法律和秩序，我的强大的商业，我们的工作正在回到创纪录的水平。”“他们不希望这种情况发生。”
当被问及他们是谁时，总统说是“民主党人。”
Trump claims more white people die at hands of law enforcement, defends flying Confederate flag
President Donald Trumpgrew defensive and claimed "more white people" than Black people die at the hands of law enforcement during an interview with CBS News Monday, despite the reality that unarmed Black people are disproportionately more likely to die at the hands of police than white people.
Asked by CBS News' Catherine Herridge why African Americans are still dying at the hands of law enforcement, Trump shot back, "And so are white people, so are white people, what a terrible question to ask," Trumpsaid.
"So are white people, more white people by the way, more white people," Trump continued.
Beyond the remarkable nature of the president's reaction to the question, calling it "terrible" as the nation is having a reckoning about racial profiling and police brutality, the statement appeared misleading and racially insensitive.
There is abody of researchthat police disproportionately shoot and kill Black Americans.
In March, Dr. Matthew Miller, a veteran gun violence researcher and professor of health sciences and epidemiology at Northeastern University, co-authored a study on civilians who were shot and killed by police officers between 2014 and 2015.
Roughly 1,000 people are shot to death by police officers every year, and after analyzing those deaths, Miller and his co-authors found that black Americans were twice as likely to be shot and killed by police officers, compared with their representation in the population.
Previous research, including the Washington Post's fatal forceproject, which had logged deadly police shootings since 2015, has come to similar conclusions about police officers disproportionately killing black Americans.
In the new study, black Americans were three times more likely to be shot and killed by police officers during interactions where the victim appeared to pose little or no threat to officers, the researchers found.
The president went on to offer a defense for the flying of the Confederate flag, saying "People love it, and I know people that like the Confederate flag and they're not thinking of slavery, I look at NASCAR you had the flags all over the place."
Trump did not reveal his personal opinion on the flag other than to repeat his insistence that he supports "freedom of speech."
"All I say is freedom of speech, it's very simple, my attitude is freedom of speech. Very strong views on the confederate flag. With me it's freedom of speech, very simple. Like it, don't like, it's freedom of speech,"
"I am comfortable with freedom of speech, it's very simple," Trump said.
In anotherinterviewaddressing race relations Monday, -- this one with conservative outlet Townhall -- President Trump offered a full throated defense for the actions of a white St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters who marched by their mansion.
"They were going to be beat up badly if they were lucky, if they were lucky they were going to be beat up badly," the president said of the couple, without providing any evidence of that and authorities have not said so. "And the house was going to be totally ransacked and probably burned down like they've tried to burn down churches," he continued.
In defending the couple, Trump claimed that they legally owned the firearms and called it a "disgrace" that they could be prosecuted for their actions.
"And these people were standing there never used it, and they were legal, the weapons, and now I understand someone local, they want to prosecute these people," Trump said.
Also in the CBS News interview, responding to a growing number of school districts making the choice to remain online in the fall, Trump said it's a mistake and argues their decisions were designed to hurt him politically.
Asked what he'd tell parents and teachers who are concerned it's not safe to return to in person instruction, the president claims that people are "dying" as a result of staying home.
"I would tell parents and teachers that you should find a new person, whoever is in charge of that decision, because it's a terrible decision because children and parents are dying from that trauma too, they're dying because they can't do what they're doing. Mothers can't go to work because all of a sudden they have to stay home and watch their child," Trump continued.
He said the decision not to reopen schools is politically designed to hurt him and insists that schools have to open.
"I also say a decision like that is politics because we're starting to do very well in the polls, because I'm for law and order, I'm for strong business, our jobs are coming back in a record level," he added. "They don't want that to happen."
Asked who they is, the president says it's "the Democrats."
