“After learning some officers are Jewish, “Ilhan Omar says police shouldn’t exist.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
Crime and security
1,827 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“George Floyd’s younger brother, Dejywan Floyd, has been arrested in North Carolina for a ‘road rage’ shooting of a white couple, killing the mother of six sitting in the passenger seat.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Image of a newspaper clipping that mentions the arrest of a BJP leader for links with the Naxals”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: Although the news about the BJP leader’s arrest for connection with Naxal’s is true, it happened back in June 2020. This news is digitally added to a news clip of Navabharat dated 05 April 2021, which reported the recen…
“Telangana police recruitment board has released a recruitment notification for 18,925 vacancies”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: Telangana state police recruitment board has not released any latest recruitment notification. The 2018 recruitment notification is digitally edited so as to look like the latest recruitment notification. Few news agenc…
“Judge Jeff Davis "spent years defending a convicted cop killer" and "tried to get him off the hook.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Davis represented a Florida man convicted in the murder of a corrections officer for 21 years before the man was executed in 2013. But the ad exaggerates the nature of the case and Davis’s goal.
“Less than 500 people a year killed by all rifles combined” and “4,000 a year killed by illegals.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
PolitiFact says: Gun-ban proposals have focused on assault-style weapons, not rifles generally. No national statistics are kept on killings by people in the U.S. illegally, but estimates indicate it’s far fewer than 4,000 per year.
“Newspaper clipping from 1971 shows 4000 RSS workers were arrested under the IPC section 377 for performing unnatural sexual acts while protesting for the liberation of Bangladesh”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: It is a digitally created fake newspaper clipping. While there are reports about Jan Sangh protesting in support of the liberation of Bangladesh, there is no evidence that 4,000 RSS workers were arrested under IPC secti…
“Says Deborah Birx “traveled a great distance to see her family for Thanksgiving — only to have them call the police and turn her in. She then ... resigned.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
PolitiFact says: Birx spent part of the Thanksgiving weekend with her daughter's immediate family. No family member called the police.
“Finally, a judge has ruled Dominion voting machines were designed to create fraud.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: A judge ruled in December that an “audit report” on voting in the 2020 presidential election in Antrim County, Mich., be released to the public. The judge did not issue any ruling about the contents of the report.
“Last week, the Colorado Supreme Court declared that Boulder’s AR-15 ban was unconstitutional. Today, there was a mass shooting in Boulder.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“The shooting in Boulder, Colo., was a "false flag like most of the others.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
PolitiFact says: The Boulder, Colo., shooting wasn’t staged. A gunman killed 10 people at a grocery store.
“The International Criminal Court was founded on Nov. 1, 2011.”
Vera Files rated this: False
Vera Files says: The ICC was established on July 17, 1998, when its founding treaty, the Rome Statute, was adopted by 120 United Nations member-states, including the Philippines. The court became operational on July 1, 2002.
“Black Lives Matter of Atlanta Charged with Wire Fraud, Money Laundering and Allegedly Using almost 500k in Donations For Personal Use.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“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.”
Washington Post rated this: Three Pinocchios
Washington Post says: 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.
“Mitch McConnell already partially eliminated the filibuster to install a right-wing Supreme Court, so he will not hesitate to completely remove that rule when back in power.”
Washington Post rated this: Doubtful
Washington Post says: McConnell has consistently supported keeping the legislative filibuster
“The Atlanta shooting suspect wrote an anti-China post on Facebook prior to the shootings.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: The post isn’t legitimate and didn’t come from an authentic Facebook account. It was made using an online generator that creates fake Facebook status updates.
“Wisconsin is one of only nine states in the nation in which 17 year-olds are automatically treated as adults in the criminal justice system.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“American Rescue Plan Act stimulus checks are "going to people in prison, they’re going to people who are illegal immigrants.”
FactCheck.org rated this: Spins the Facts
FactCheck.org says: Two relief bills he voted for last year included stimulus checks and didn’t prohibit payments to prisoners. The bills included the same language denying checks to “any nonresident alien individual."
“Navy SEALs arrest Hillary Clinton.”
PolitiFact rated this: Pants on Fire
“I do not support defunding the police.”
Washington Post rated this: Flip flop