This is ridiculously offensive if you think it about for more than a couple seconds.
Never said I was offended, but the statement is offensive to the group of people it is referring to.
As far as your other point, I would not disagree with your assessment of the current situation; but I think it's a regressive and lazy way of addressing the problem. The many problems the black population are facing have been compounded from many generations of institutionalized racism and the promotion of this racism through groups that want to control the black population.
Gives us the same opportunity to listen in.
If they are all under investigation then planting a bug in that facility beforehand would be very possible.