Thursday 12 May 2022 08:17 PM White Thomson Reuters data scientist said he was FIRED by woke BLM bullies at ... trends now

Thursday 12 May 2022 08:17 PM White Thomson Reuters data scientist said he was FIRED by woke BLM bullies at ... trends now
Thursday 12 May 2022 08:17 PM White Thomson Reuters data scientist said he was FIRED by woke BLM bullies at ... trends now

Thursday 12 May 2022 08:17 PM White Thomson Reuters data scientist said he was FIRED by woke BLM bullies at ... trends now

A former director of data science at Thomson Reuters said he was fired for sharing research on the company's internal social media platform that showed unarmed white people were more likely to be killed by cops than black people and that the Black Lives Matter movement allegedly caused the deaths of thousands. 

Zac Kriegman, who worked at Thomson Reuters for six years before being fired last summer, claimed he was let go from his $350,000 job because he stood against the company's reporting conventions on BLM in order to dispel what the 'false narrative' that black people were the largest victim of police violence. 

In a piece first published on Bari Weiss's Substack, Common Sense, Kriegman said he shared with collogues concerns that reports saying unarmed black people are killed by police at a dispropriationly higher rate than their white counterparts was not accurate.

The Washington Post, which has led the effort to document fatal police shootings, found that since 2015, 3,024 white people have been killed by police and 1,596 black people have been killed. 

The findings highlight that black people were disproportionally affected by the shootings as they make up only 13 percent of the U.S. population, but Kriegman said the rhetoric was incomplete and when he tried proving it, he said he received backlash from fellow white co-workers. 

'I was publicly derided as a 'troll,' 'confused,' 'laughable,' and 'not worth engaging with or even attempting to have an intelligent conversation' with,' Kriegman wrote. 

Zac Kriegman, a former director of data science at Thomson Reuters, claimed he was wrongfully fired after sharing his research on race and police killings with colleagues

Zac Kriegman, a former director of data science at Thomson Reuters, claimed he was wrongfully fired after sharing his research on race and police killings with colleagues 

Kriegman's research claimed that black people were not disrpoptionatedly killed by police when compared to their white counterparts and Black Lives Matter's instance that they were fueled anti-cop sentiments that caused crime and violence to rise in communities of color

Kriegman's research claimed that black people were not disrpoptionatedly killed by police when compared to their white counterparts and Black Lives Matter's instance that they were fueled anti-cop sentiments that caused crime and violence to rise in communities of color

The Washington Post's reported that while more unarmed white people have been killed by police since 2015, Black people have been disproportionately affected as they only represent 13 percent of the population but make up 1,596 of the deaths so far

The Washington Post's reported that while more unarmed white people have been killed by police since 2015, Black people have been disproportionately affected as they only represent 13 percent of the population but make up 1,596 of the deaths so far

Thomson Reuters said it does not discuss specific employee issues and that 'Reuters, the news division of Thomson Reuters, reports on topics related to race and equality and the BLM organization in a fair, unbiased and independent manner, consistent with the Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.' 

Kriegman had argued that rather at looking at the population as a whole to see who was truly more impacted by police violence, reporters needed to instead take into account what racial groups police felt more threatened from. 

To this end, Kriegman cited the FBI's research into the racial demographics of those who had killed or assault police officers. 

The FBI's data, which records violence against officers from 2010 to 2019, found that there were 199 instances of black people attacking officers but 537 cases of where white people were the offenders. 

He said these instances better aligned with the Washington Posts findings, concluding that unarmed black people are not disproportionally affected by the police killings. 

Kriegman added that the rhetoric that they were only fueled anti-police sentiments, which he claimed has led to the uptick in crime nationwide, specifically in predominantly black neighborhoods. 

He cited the Ferguson Effect, a controversial theory that claimed crime rose nationwide following backlash against police over the shooting of Michael Brown by a white police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, in 2014. 

Although the theory has been disputed, with crime upticks only recorded in large cities, Kriegman said Black Lives Matter's claims have led to the same results now.

'I have avidly followed the research on the movement and its impacts, which has led me, inexorably, to the conclusion that the claim at the heart of the movement, that police more readily shoot black people, is false and likely responsible for thousands of black people being murdered in the most disadvantaged communities in the country.'

Kriegman claimed that rather than using population figures as a whole, journalists should use who police feel threatened by, citing the FBI's data that shows more white people have killed or assaulted police officers between 2010 and 2019

Kriegman claimed that rather than using population figures as a whole, journalists should use who police feel threatened by, citing the FBI's data that shows more white people have killed or assaulted police officers between 2010 and 2019

Kriegman claimed that the higher ups at Thomson Reuter ignored the alleged bullying he faced. He has filed a complaint with Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination for being allegedly 'fired in retaliation for complaining about a racially hostile work environment'

Kriegman claimed that the higher ups at Thomson Reuter ignored the alleged bullying he faced. He has filed a complaint with Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination for being allegedly 'fired in retaliation for complaining about a racially hostile work environment'

Kriegman said he wanted his research to open up conversations into how they could better report the issue and 'accurately' depict the reality of police shootings. 

Instead, he saw his post get taken down because it was allegedly 'antagonistic' and 'provocative.'

He claimed one colleague at Thomson Reuters had told him: 'I do not believe that there is any point in trying to engage in

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