“Tim Ryan called police the new Jim Crow.”
What PolitiFact found
Ryan did not single out or even mention the police in relation to Jim Crow laws. His comments broadly addressed criminal laws, prosecutions and sentencing.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
J.D. Vance (U.S. Senate candidate, R-Ohio) made this claim around 4 September 2022. PolitiFact (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 8 September 2022, 4 days later. Its rating was “Mostly False”.
J.D. Vance has 38 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 21 of them false or fake, 16 misleading or mixed and 1 true.
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