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X posts stated on June 09, 2025 in X post:

Video shows woman exiting her car during the 2025 Los Angeles protests, shouting, “I have babies in the car!”

By Ella Moore• June 12, 2025

Facebook posts stated on October 30, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says the toddler shown in a photo clinging to a police officer was found wandering, alone and barefoot, looking for his mother amid protests in Philadelphia.

By Samantha Putterman• October 31, 2020

Instagram posts stated on September 14, 2020 in an Instagram post:

The same deputy who got shot through her jaw in Saturday’s shooting is the same officer seen on video laughing and smirking at the scene of security guard Andres Guardado’s death after he was shot and killed by LASD officers on June 18th, 2020.”

By Samantha Putterman• September 16, 2020

Angel Taveras stated on July 12, 2014 in an interview with The Providence Journal:

"If you look at what we’ve done over the last several years, the crime rate has actually gone down in [Providence] and . . . the number of shootings has been going down."

By C. Eugene Emery Jr.• July 24, 2014

Facebook posts stated on January 11, 2025 in a Jan 11, 2025, video:

Video claims to show the Los Angeles fires.

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu• January 16, 2025

Rahm Emanuel stated on April 02, 2013 in a CNN interview:

Says in Chicago, "we take more guns off the streets than New York or L.A."

By Becky Bowers• April 9, 2013

TikTok posts stated on June 09, 2025 in a video:

Video shows Los Angeles protesters chanting “We are Los Angeles” in June 2025.

By Ella Moore• June 11, 2025

Instagram posts stated on August 14, 2022 in an Instagram post:

Anne Heche was murdered by the illuminati because she was working on a movie about Jeffrey Epstein.

By Ciara O'Rourke• August 16, 2022

Jeff Stone stated on February 21, 2017 in a press release:

"Since the passage of Proposition 47 by voters in 2014 and the signing of AB 109 in 2011, violent crime has been on the rise in California, up 12 percent in 2015 statewide according to the FBI."

By Chris Nichols• March 6, 2017

National Rifle Association stated on March 21, 2018 in a segment on NRATV:

"March For Our Lives is backed by radicals with a history of violent threats, language and actions."

By Jon Greenberg• March 23, 2018

Cavalier Johnson stated on April 09, 2022 in TV interview:

In a recent year, the Milwaukee Police Department "collected more guns per capita off the streets than in New York.”

By Vanessa Swales• May 24, 2022

Antonio Villaraigosa stated on July 31, 2017 in an interview on MSNBC:

"In the eight years that I was mayor, (there was a) nearly 50 percent drop in violent crime, gang crime — crime went down because we grew our police department, we focused on constitutional community policing, we did some of the most innovative prevention, intervention, job re-entry programs in the nation."

By Chris Nichols• October 18, 2017

Jan Brewer stated on June 25, 2010 in a television interview:

"The majority of the people that are coming to Arizona and trespassing are now becoming drug mules."

By Louis Jacobson• June 30, 2010

Gwen Moore stated on August 26, 2020 in Twitter:

In contrast to how a Black man who was shot by police was treated, Kenosha police officers "let an armed white supremacist walk right past them after shooting people."

By Haley BeMiller• September 1, 2020

Instagram posts stated on January 12, 2021 in an Instagram post:

Says Joe Biden stayed silent about violence at Black Lives Matter protests.

By Tom Kertscher• January 16, 2021

Donald Trump stated on October 19, 2016 in the third presidential debate:

In Chicago, which has the toughest gun laws in the United States, probably you could say by far, they have more gun violence than any other city.

By Matt Dietrich• November 3, 2016

Rudy Giuliani stated on August 15, 2016 in a speech in Youngstown, Ohio:

"Under those eight years before (Barack) Obama came along, we didn’t have any successful radical Islamic terrorist attack in the United States" since Sept. 11, 2001.

By Linda Qiu• August 16, 2016

Karen Bass stated on December 18, 2022 in in an interview:

“Literally five (homeless) people a day die on our streets” in the city of Los Angeles.

By Andy Nguyen• December 20, 2022

Facebook posts stated on June 28, 2020 in Facebook post:

Says Milwaukee police were protecting a sex offender's house and snuck children out of it after a mother tracked her missing daughter to that address.

By Lawrence Andrea• August 3, 2020

Beverly Boswell stated on March 27, 2018 in a Facebook post:

Many March for Our Lives speakers called for "the murder of those who would not turn over their guns to the government."

By Paul Specht• March 29, 2018

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