“Pepper spray is not a chemical irritant. It’s not chemical.”
What Washington Post found
This is false. Pepper balls contain pelargonic acid vanillylamide, or PAVA, a “synthetic'' form of capsaicin, the active ingredient in hot peppers.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
William Barr (Attorney General) made this claim around 7 June 2020. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 9 June 2020, 2 days later. Its rating was “Four Pinocchios”.
William Barr has 8 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 5 of them false or fake, 3 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- cbsnews.comhttps://www.cbsnews.com/news/bill-barr-george-floyd-protests-blm-face-the-nation-transcri…
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