“Out of 7,750 protests last summer associated with BLM and Antifa, 570 turned into violent riots that killed 25 people and caused $1- $2 billion of property damage.”
What Washington Post found
Johnson attributes 570 “riots” and 25 deaths to Black Lives Matter and antifa. But in reality not all of these events were associated with BLM or antifa.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Ron Johnson (Senator (R-Wisc.)) made this claim around 13 March 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 19 March 2021, 6 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
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.
Where the claim appeared
- thehill.comhttps://thehill.com/homenews/senate/543050-gop-senator-says-he-didnt-feel-unsafe-during-r…
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