A controversy erupts on the Colorado House floor after Rep. Lori Saine said blacks and whites were lynched in nearly equal numbers for being Republican in the years after the civil war. Saine posted the video to her Facebook page on Monday, claiming her colleague Rep. Perry Buck couldn’t introduce a resolution honoring Dr. King because King “didn’t represent her heritage.” Data from the NAACP however contradicts Saine’s comments about lynchings. Roughly 4,700 people were lynched in the US between 1882 and 1968. 72% of them were black.