The graph showed stock market gains after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the police killings of Michael Brown and George Floyd.
Fox News apologized Saturday after showing an infographic on-air that depicts the stock market's reaction to high profile killings of black men including the recent death of George Floyd.
The graph aired on Friday during Fox's live news coverage and showed positive stock market changes one week after Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination and the police killings of Michael Brown and George Floyd, who were both unarmed when they lost their lives to white officers. The bar graph also showed a 1.2% positive change after the acquittal of two white men facing trial in the brutal 1992 beating of Rodney King. The information listed in the graphic included “percentage change” in the S&P 500 market “one week after event.”
A Fox News spokesperson told USA TODAY in a statement that the graph shouldn't have aired without more information being added.
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