John Hinderaker has the story:

I wrote here that the common belief that blacks are disproportionately killed by police officers is wrong. In fact, a minority of those shot by policemen (26% in 2015) are black, and that percentage is just about exactly in line with the number of violent criminals who are black. And a large majority of those "victims" were in the act of attacking a policeman or someone else when shot.

But liberals never let facts get in the way of their narrative. So all around us, we see false assertions about rampant police murders of young black men. For now, I will note two which are very different in their origins, but are symptoms of the same disease.

Earlier today, NFL player Isaiah Crowell, a running back for the Cleveland Browns, posted this on Instagram [showing the picture above].

This is hideous, obviously, but it is easy to understand how Crowell got the impression that policemen "continually choose to kill us." If, for example, he subscribes to the New York Times, he would be inundated with this sort of ignorance.

Crowell (or, more likely, his agent and the Browns organization) quickly realized his mistake. His tweet was deleted and an extensive apology and meditation on race relations was released, written no doubt by someone else. You can read it here.