One day after his supporters attacked a Black Lives Matter protester at a rally, Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump posted a patently false message on the social medium Twitter in which he declared that so far in 2015, 97 percent of U.S. homicides have been “blacks killing blacks.”

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As Gawker’s Ashley Feingberg noted, “According to the most recently released set of crime statistics from the FBI (which are from 2014), 82 percent of white homicides are committed by other white people, while black offenders account for just 14 percent of white homicides.”

“And out of the total number of black homicides,” she continued, “7 percent are actually committed by white offenders, while 89 percent are committed by other black people.”

Twitter users took note.

normani: i hate donald trump me: pic.twitter.com/O9F3tlBIsI — dilan loves normani (@woke_normani) November 22, 2015

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This kind of race baiting is a reckless, not-so-subtle dog whistle for vigilantes and hate groups. Everyone has a… https://t.co/i1xaRi8sW4 — Protest Easy Guns (@ProtestEasyGuns) November 22, 2015

That Trump continues to tweet, and keep his factually inaccurate/racist tweet up, shows you he'll do ANYTHING to appeal to racists. — Shaun King (@ShaunKing) November 22, 2015

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In 24 hours, @realDonaldTrump has had more horrendously racist moments than any leading presidential candidate in 40+ years. — Shaun King (@ShaunKing) November 22, 2015

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.@realDonaldTrump's campaign did not respond when asked if Trump knew that this data was wrong. https://t.co/T1xRfKCagY — Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) November 22, 2015

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The juxtaposition of Trump's false crime stats and the assault on a black protester at his rally is notable. Criminalizing and victimizing. — Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) November 22, 2015

Fact: Last year, police in 17 of the 100 largest cities killed black men at a higher rate than the US murder rate. pic.twitter.com/hk3QimhXe9 — Samuel Sinyangwe (@samswey) November 22, 2015

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He tweeted an inaccuracy. Who knew fact checking was "heat." https://t.co/Se7Dg6uXZx — Xavier (@Rev_Xavier) November 22, 2015

What is the difference between @realDonaldTrump and a Stormfront member? Our ability to pretend Stormfront speaks only for a tiny fringe. — jay smooth (@jsmooth995) November 22, 2015