“Days after the 2016 deadly shooting of Dallas police officers, "Mandela Barnes ... rationalized violence against American police officers.”
Ron Johnson
U.S. Senator. TV ad. Claim dated 18 Oct 2022.
FactCheck.org rated thisHe Condemned Attack
What FactCheck.org found
The ad ignores that Barnes said the killings were “not justified in any way” and that he “denounced” the attack.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron Johnson (U.S. Senator) made this claim around 18 October 2022. FactCheck.org (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 20 October 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “He Condemned Attack”.
Ron Johnson has 43 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 17 of them false or fake, 21 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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