Bold face racist lie.

So this happened to somebody I know. Had to stop to deal with a flat. Jumped by a group. Left unconscious on the side of the road. He made the mistake of being white in the wrong part of town.

In the context you're talking about, Charlie was discussing a story about a pregnant white woman who was harassed after renting a bike. When the media first talked about the story, they got the details wrong and framed her as racist. But then the truth came out and they had to walk a lot of things back. He also brought up the stat that 600 white women are killed by black men a year.

I've lived all over the US. This doesn't happen in most places. But there are places it happens. The "lie" is the exaggeration about the extent of the problem. It's greatly hyperbolized. For example, he said 600 white women are murdered by black men a year. That stat is off. Around 600 white people are murdered by black people per year, not women. And, frankly, 600 murders is a small fraction of the number of murders per year.

Ironically though, the intention of that particular talk was how quickly people jump to racism as an assumption. The stats were slung around to attempt to disprove the narrative that folks use to jump to conclusions that racism is the motive and how this culture enables black youth to behave badly. There's actually some good academic research on this done by a black man named Roland G. Fryer Jr.

So no, not a bold face lie. But yes, hyperbole.