Waleed Aly obliterates Malcolm Turnbull in a report on so-called African gangs

On July 8, the story was broadcast on Channel Seven's segment Sunday Night which proclaimed that African gangs were "raging" and "terrorizing" Melbourne

. "According to the Victoria Criminal Statistics Agency, crime actually dropped 9 percent last year in Victoria," he said. "Sudanese Victorians represent 0.1% of the population and account for only 1% of all crimes committed last year."

Adding that while the Sudanese community is clearly overrepresented in criminal statistics, Aly said that the most interesting is that Victorians born were responsible for 71.7% of the crime committed last year.

Despite these figures, Aly pointed out, Turnbull went on to argue that there was a problem with African gangs specifically.

does not say that African-Australians are not committing crime, "said Aly. "And I do not deny that victims of these crimes have the right to be scared, but that's just a fraction of the crime committed, and say that a city is gripped by gang fear African is simply wrong

"I do not think the prime minister knows anything we do not know. I'm sorry to say that I think our politicians are not honest here.

"I think the government will face the Super Saturday elections next week and, to put it bluntly, they want to look tough on the Sudanese migrants, despite the fact that these migrants are only responsible for 1% of the population. crime, because they are tough in this community [gets] vote in this country. "

Aly's harsh approach has been hailed on social media, with a number of the viewers praising the host for "speaking the truth".

"The" truth "about these gangs?" Wrote Twitter user Georgina Dent. "Prime Minister knows that being" hard "on this part of the community is gaining votes in this country Another segment of evisceration of TV news from Waleed and [Tom Whitty]."