“When I became a business owner, I needed to protect myself. There was an altercation outside of my restaurant where a man was physically beat to death. There were no weapons involved. He was beat to death by another man’s hands.”
Lauren Boebert
Member of Congress (R-Colo.). in a House floor speech. Claim dated 10 Mar 2021.
Washington Post rated thisThree Pinocchios
What Washington Post found
Contradicted by police and coroner reports.
Their words, from the summary they publish with the rating.
In short
Lauren Boebert (Member of Congress (R-Colo.)) made this claim around 10 March 2021. Washington Post (United States) looked into it and published its finding on 12 March 2021, 2 days later. Its rating was “Three Pinocchios”.
Lauren Boebert has 6 checked claims in this archive. Fact-checking organisations rated 6 of them false or fake, 0 misleading or mixed and 0 true.
Where the claim appeared
- c-span.orghttps://www.c-span.org/video/?509630-1/house-passes-19-trillion-covid-19-relief-bill-220-…
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