GOP Senate Hopeful Royce White Puts His Foot in It (Again)
Getty Images/City of MinneapolisEmbattled GOP-endorsed Senate hopeful Royce White was caught in yet another embarrassing moment Tuesday when he blindly posted a map of “out of control” crime in Minneapolis that was actually a map of... the city’s public... Former NBA player Royce White, a Republican-endorsed Senate hopeful for the Minnesota Senate, has caused controversy again by posting a map of "out of control" crime in Minneapolis, which he mistakenly thought was a map showing the city's public water fountains. White, who has been accused of spending $1,200 of campaign funds at a Miami strip club, appeared to have ripped the graphic from another account on X, which was shared sarcastically by another user who shared it sarcastically. The map showed dozens of green dots indicating working fountain and a handful of red and yellow dots indicating broken and repaired ones across Minneapolis. White had mistakenly thought the dots indicated different levels of crime across the city.
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Embattled GOP-endorsed Senate hopeful Royce White was caught in yet another embarrassing moment Tuesday when he blindly posted a map of “out of control” crime in Minneapolis that was actually a map of... the city’s public water fountains.
White, a 33-year-old retired NBA player who was recently accused of dropping $1,200 of campaign funds at a Miami strip club, appeared to have ripped the graphic from another account on X who had shared it sarcastically. It showed dozens of green dots, which indicated working fountains, and a handful of red and yellow dots, which signified those broken and being repaired across Minneapolis.
Apparently, White thought the dots indicated different levels of crime across the city and shared it with the caption, “Crime in Minneapolis... Out of control. Come on now. Refund the Police!”
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Topics: GOP