Crime and security
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“Senate Republicans' move to confirm Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court in an election year is "not constitutional.”
“A video purports to show "Americans being ARRESTED for holding outdoor church services.”
FactCheck.org says: A video that purports to show "Americans being ARRESTED for holding outdoor church services." The video actually shows a demonstration against a public health order held by a church in a city hall parking lot.
“That family had no connection with Hathras case, and she also exposed for spreading lies and giving interviews on all TV channels. Now she is currently in hiding for fear of arrest. With this the fake militants make the people forget about the Harthas incident and waiting for the next corpse politics opportunity.”
“An appellate court found Kamala Harris and police “took part in framing and prosecuting a man” for a murder he didn’t commit, paying a key witness $60,000 in relocation benefits for testifying against him.”
“Video of a BJP worker kicking the tear gas canister back towards the police in West Bengal.”
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“Punjab police Nomi (Christian woman) raped and killed in Amritsar. Sad to hear that Indian newspaper, journalist, social media is silent on this #JusticeforNomi fair.”
“Lt.Gen.Taranjit Singh has been arrested on charges of sedition”
FACTLY says: Indian Army through a press statement called out the news as an attempt of state-sponsored malicious disinformation campaign by Pakistan & rejected the claim of the arrest. Even though a tweet, the Indian Army said the …
“UP stands in first position among other states with respect to various aspects of crimes, like crime against women, children etc”
FACTLY says: According to the Crime in India 2019 report released by the NCRB, Uttar Pradesh has reported the highest number of cases of crime against women and crime under the POCSO Act. As far as other aspects of crime mentioned i…
“Look at the atrocity that happened to that Tamil girl who is Superintendent of Police in Malaysia. Great protest happened for the black man who killed by the police in the United States. Today, a Tamil woman was brutally beaten to death in Malaysia.”
“Photo shows “all the men who have killed police officers this year (2020).”
“Sen. Kamala Harris "helped raise money that got a man out of jail after he allegedly sexually penetrated a child.”
FactCheck.org says: The ad doesn’t explain that Harris was helping to raise money for protesters of racial injustice, not an accused sex offender, and it ignores that any decision to grant or deny bail is made by a judge.
“Says Sara Gideon "voted to defund" the Freeport police "and gave the money to a nonprofit she helped run.”
PolitiFact says: Gideon voted to consolidate police dispatch services with a neighboring community, saving the town money. Gideon didn’t give town funds to the nonprofit for which she served as a board member.
“Joe Biden kneels, and his employees pay bail [for violent protesters]. And Biden doesn’t stand up to the radical leftists who want to eliminate the police.”
Washington Post says: Biden does not support defunding police
“Donald Trump only asked Joe Biden for his list of Supreme Court picks after Ruth Bader Ginsberg died.”
“Putting a national lockdown, stay-at-home orders, is like house arrest. Other than slavery, which was a different kind of restraint, this is the greatest intrusion on civil liberties in American history.”
PolitiFact says: Documented U.S. civil liberties violations include denying the right to vote to millions, terrorizing Black communities resulting in thousands of deaths and forcibly relocating or deporting over 1 million citizens.
“Trump nominates Biden to the Supreme Court”
“Claim: Has Indian native women working in Malaysia police murdered”
“I think the fastest [Supreme Court] justice ever confirmed was 47 days.”
FactCheck.org says: Since 1975, the shortest time from formal nomination to confirmation was 19 days.