US broadcaster Fox News created an uproar on Friday when it aired a graphic evaluating the performance of the stock market through the prism of incidents of violence against blacks.

The broadcaster has since apologised. But the timing of the graphic, amid the ongoing protest in the wake George Floyd’s killing, has caused consternation in the United States.

In the segment, a Fox News anchor says that there is a "disconnect between what investors focus on and what happens across the rest of the country".

A graphic then goes on to show the performance of S&P 500 in the aftermath of the assassination of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Junior in 1968; the acquittal in 1992 of the police officers involved in the violent beating of Rodney King; the police killing of Michael Brown in 2014 in Ferguson, Missouri; and the latest killing of Floyd after a policeman pinned him to the ground for 8 minutes and 46 seconds all the while pressing his knee on Floyd’s neck.

Here's the graphic as it aired.https://t.co/h0nP5IoTUy pic.twitter.com/201rNVXeZL

— andrew kaczynski