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Checked by PolitiFact22 Sep 2020United States Crime and security

William Barr, U.S. Attorney General

“Putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.”

PolitiFact rated this: False

PolitiFact says: Documented U.S. civil liberties violations include denying the right to vote to millions, terrorizing Black communities resulting in thousands of deaths and forcibly relocating or deporting over 1 million citizens.

Checked by PolitiFact29 Jul 2020United States Crime and security

William Barr, U.S. Attorney General

“On federal police action against protesters on Lafayette Square: "It's my understanding that no tear gas was used on Monday, June 1.”

PolitiFact rated this: Misleading

PolitiFact says: The U.S. Park Police said officers used products that contain the chemical irritant pelargonic acid vanillylamide, or PAVA, which closely matches the CDC’s description of tear gas.