“On the day of the Dec. 6 runoff, “armed groups of Black Panthers” were “reportedly patrolling certain voting locations” in Georgia.”
What PolitiFact found
The New Black Panthers said they showed up at voting sites in Brunswick and Savannah, but ultimately decided against armed patrols because they did not want to intimidate voters. They went unarmed.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Kelly Loeffler (former U.S. Senator from Georgia) made this claim around 6 December 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 December 2022, 2 days later. Its rating was “False”.
Kelly Loeffler has 7 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 3 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
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