Footage going viral online shows a segment from a nearly two-hour-long discussion between journalist Bari Weiss and Harvard Economics Professor Roland Fryer where the top economist talked about his controversial study that revealed there is no racial bias in American police shootings.
“We collected millions of observations on everyday use of force that wasn’t lethal,” he told an audience at the University of Austin. “We collected thousands of observations on lethal force, and it was in this moment in 2016 that I realized people lose their minds when they don’t like the result.”
Fryer’s findings concluded there was no racial bias to be found in police shootings in the U.S.
Collecting the data took eight resident assistants (RA) over a year of full-time work.
After the results came back showing there was no racial bias in police shootings, Fryer hired another eight RAs to redo the entire study.
When the second team came back with the same exact findings as the first group of assistants, the Harvard professor called the data “robust” and decided to go public.
Fryer was shocked when his 104-page academic paper with a 150-page appendix was criticized by readers and his colleagues.
Some peers even told him he shouldn’t publish the study because he’d ruin his career.
Soon after releasing the data, Fryer and his then-seven-day-old daughter had to live under police protection for a month.
Former Harvard Dean Claudine Gay was so triggered by the study that she placed Fryer on leave for two whole years.
Weiss asked the economist about Gay recently having to resign from her position as the head of Harvard due to plagiarising someone’s work during congressional testimony and refusing to say whether calls for the genocide of Jews on campus would violate school policies.
“Do you believe in karma?” Weiss asked, with Fryer answering, “I hear it’s a motherfucker.”
Later during the sit-down conversation, Fryer ranted against DEI wokeness being pushed on American citizens, saying, “You can’t put me on a task force where we’re going to spend a semester talking about the new name for black people. You go to my neighborhood and call someone BIPOC, they’ll punch you in the face.”
Watch the full conversation below:
