“My opponent’s plan for people who commit sexual assault, sexual predators, is no jail time.”
Byron Brown
Mayor of Buffalo. in a speech. Claim dated 26 Sep 2021.
PolitiFact rated thisFalse
What PolitiFact found
Walton favors restorative justice, but has not said that her plan is no jail time for sexual predators.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Byron Brown (Mayor of Buffalo) made this claim around 26 September 2021. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 14 October 2021, 18 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Byron Brown has 3 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 2 of them false or fake, 1 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- investigativepost.orghttps://www.investigativepost.org/2021/09/02/campaign-notes/
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