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Instagram posts stated on June 04, 2022 in an Instagram post:
White supremacists are going to be “shooting up all Walmarts and will kill Blacks and Mexicans” in San Bernardino, California.
By Jeff Cercone• June 8, 2022
Social Media stated on March 27, 2025 in social media posts:
Image shows a “person dressed up as Pikachu to resist police violence” in Turkey.
By Loreben Tuquero• March 28, 2025
X posts stated on April 03, 2023 in a Tweet:
“Florida man charged with a hate crime” for defacing pride crosswalk.
By Grace Abels• April 7, 2023
Viral image stated on May 22, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Says a photo depicts a teacher and student with guns guarding a Delaware high school in 1973 after a shooting threat.
By Samantha Putterman• May 23, 2019
Facebook posts stated on June 09, 2019 in a Facebook post:
The media was silent that "the Colorado school shooter is a transsexual, Trump-hating, Christian-hating, leftist freak."
By Ciara O'Rourke• June 6, 2019
Viral image stated on March 22, 2021 in an Instagram post:
“Last week, the Colorado Supreme Court declared that Boulder’s AR-15 ban was unconstitutional. Today, there was a mass shooting in Boulder.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• March 23, 2021
Andrea Mitchell stated on August 17, 2014 in an episode of NBC's "Meet the Press":
In Ferguson, Mo., "you've got three black officers and 50 white officers with a town that is 67 percent African-American."  
By Katie Sanders• August 17, 2014
Social Media stated on December 15, 2025 in in social media posts:
Brown University student Mustapha Karbouch was a suspect in school shooting.
By Jeff Cercone• December 19, 2025
Instagram posts stated on September 28, 2022 in a video:
Father danced for his daughter at her grave after she was killed during recent protests in Iran.
By Gabrielle Settles• September 29, 2022
Liberty Headlines stated on March 07, 2018 in a headline:
"Seattle police begin gun confiscations: no laws broken, no warrant, no charges."
By Amy Sherman• March 14, 2018
Facebook posts stated on July 20, 2022 in an image on Facebook:
“The gunman at Greenwood Park Mall was a CIA asset.”
By Madison Czopek• July 22, 2022
Dave Aronberg stated on August 26, 2019 in an interview on MSNBC:
Florida’s red flag gun law has been used "about five times a day."
By Amy Sherman• September 3, 2019
Marc Morial stated on November 30, 2014 in an appearance on 'Fox News Sunday':
"The number of killings of citizens by police is at a two-decade high."
By Steve Contorno• December 3, 2014
Illinois Family Institute stated on August 19, 2017 in a blog post:
Public schools, colleges and state-funded day care centers "will be made into sanctuaries by Bruce Rauner signing SB 31."
By Matt Dietrich• August 28, 2017
Bill O'Reilly stated on October 07, 2015 in a commentary:
From 2014 to 2015, Austin’s "murder rate is up a whopping 83 percent."
By Philip Jankowski, W. Gardner Selby• October 16, 2015
X posts stated on May 31, 2020 in a tweet:
Says police officers in Austin, Texas, have been “authorized to use LIVE ROUNDS, and lethal force” against protesters.
By Madlin Mekelburg• June 5, 2020
Ted Cruz stated on May 24, 2022 in remarks to the media:
“We know from past experiences that the most effective tool for keeping kids safe is armed law enforcement on the campus.”
By Madison Czopek• May 26, 2022
Edward Flynn stated on February 09, 2012 in an interview:
Says 85 percent of Milwaukee shootings involve "people with extensive criminal records shooting other people with extensive criminal records."
By Tom Kertscher• March 19, 2012
Donald Trump stated on February 04, 2020 in his 2020 State of the Union address:
“In sanctuary cities, local officials order police to release dangerous criminal aliens to prey upon the public instead of handing them over to ICE to be safely removed.”
By Bill McCarthy• February 5, 2020
Facebook posts stated on March 24, 2021 in a Facebook post:
Says the suspected Boulder mass shooter is a Muslim "who entered illegally from Mexico and purchased the firearm from a guy that sells stolen guns."
By Tom Kertscher• March 30, 2021

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