“Police are 20.8 times more likely to kill than be killed by a criminal.”
PolitiFact rated this: True
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“Police training in Wisconsin is 21 weeks. A cosmetology license takes 40 weeks.”
PolitiFact rated this: Half True
“Says Gov. Tony Evers and Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes, after police shooting of Jacob Blake, "did not call for peace. They did not encourage calm.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly False
“Video showed police thank (Kyle Rittenhouse) & give him water prior to the killings”
PolitiFact rated this: True
PolitiFact says: About 15 minutes before the shooting, an officer threw a water bottle and said to Rittenhouse’s group, “We appreciate you guys, we really do.”
“An armed robbery gang is active in Hisar”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The same images are being circulated on the internet at least since 2015. Also, we did not find any information regarding Hisar robbery gang. It can thus be concluded that old and unrelated images are being shared in su…
“The country "witnessed the horrors of [the] increasing trend of crime rate" after the death penalty was abolished.”
Vera Files rated this: Misleading
Vera Files says: Crime rate went down by around the year after the death penalty was repealed, from 82.57 percent in 2006 to 68.55 percent in 2007, then slightly up again at 74.75 percent in 2008. It ballooned to over 550 percent the fo…
“Two persons killed in a leopard attack on the Srisailam ghat road”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: Photos shared in the post are related to an incident that took place in Chiplun of Maharashtra, in the year 2018. Leopard in the photo attacked the forest officials when they tried to trap her in a cage at Ganekhadpoli …
“Photos show that the person who shot three people during a protest over the police shooting of Jacob Blake is a police officer.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Says Donald Trump “proposes cutting a half a billion dollars of local police support.”
PolitiFact rated this: Mostly True
PolitiFact says: The Trump administration budget proposal would reduce state and local law enforcement spending by about $515 million.
“Prashant Bhushan tweeted that his fight is only against the BJP Agents in the Supreme Court, not against the institution”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: Screenshot in the post shows a tweet posted from the parody account of Prashant Bhushan, not from the official twitter handle of Prashant Bhushan.
“Supreme court’s motto is changed from ‘Satyameva Jayate’ to ‘Yato Dharmastato Jayah’”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: PIB through a tweet confirmed that the claim about Supreme court’s changing its motto from ‘Satyameva Jayate’ to ‘Yato Dharmastato Jayah’ is false. Also, we looked through the archives of the supreme court website datin…
“Cal Cunningham has been silent on this on defunding the police; I assume his silence is consent.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: Cunningham wrote an op-ed saying he believes police reform must involve more funding, not less.
“Dennis Okari has been arrested over his expose”
PesaCheck rated this: False.
“Dennis Okari has been arrested over his expose”
PesaCheck rated this: FALSE
“Police thrashing a person for hoisting the BSP flag on Independence day”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: In the video, the man was thrashed by police for violating the lockdown rules during the month of March 2020. It has nothing to do with the BSP and Independence day celebrations.
“Kamala Harris framed and prosecuted a man for murder”
The Dispatch Fact Check rated this: Mostly false
“Kamala Harris is the prosecutor who refused to charge the police in the murder of Oscar Grant!”
PolitiFact rated this: False
“Photo of a man holding the poster questioning the efficiency of Mumbai Police in investigating Sushant Singh Rajput’s death”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: The poster in the photo has been edited. A similar photo with different text (related to CAA and NRC) on the poster is being circulated on the internet at least since December 2019 i.e. much before the death of Sushant …
“Court has rejected inspection of helmet usage in all states. Now it is not mandatory to wear a helmet within 15 kms of a municipal corporation.”
FACTLY rated this: FALSE
FACTLY says: PIB through a tweet confirmed that the news about court relaxing the rule to wear the helmet is fake. Also, their tweet has categorically stated that the drivers are still required to wear helmets. We did not find any c…
“Black Lives Matter "injures 1000 police officers kills 36 people and does $8 billion in damage.”
PolitiFact rated this: False
PolitiFact says: We found no proof the toll from protests against police brutality is as high as is claimed. The U.S. Justice Department told us it does not have numbers on officer injuries or property damage from civil disturbances.