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Latest Fact-Checks In Criminal Justice

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TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on September 18, 2024 a TikTok video
“Attorney General Merrick Garland just vetoed charging Ryan Routh with attempted assassination” of Donald Trump.
False
September 20, 2024
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on July 24, 2024 a rally in Charlotte, North Carolina
Kamala Harris “wants to defund the police.”
Mostly False
By Amy Sherman • July 30, 2024
Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on July 14, 2024 a post on Threads
Trump campaign rally gunman Thomas Matthew Crooks was “arrested more than once.”
False
By Ranjan Jindal • July 16, 2024
Viral image
Viral image
stated on May 30, 2024 Instagram post
Video shows a crowd celebrating former President Donald Trump’s conviction.
False
June 3, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on May 30, 2024 posts on X
Photo shows the judges who will hear the appeal of former President Donald Trump’s criminal conviction.
False
By Madison Czopek • May 31, 2024
Jesse Watters
Jesse Watters
stated on May 28, 2024 a segment of "Jesse Watters Primetime" on Fox News
Judge Juan Merchan “overrules every objection from the defense and sustains every objection from the prosecution” during former President Donald Trump’s New York trial.
False
By Madison Czopek • May 31, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 30, 2024 a Facebook post
Hacker Hamza Bendelladj was executed.
False
May 3, 2024
Viral image
Viral image
stated on April 22, 2024 a Threads post
“Judge Merchan says Trump will be arrested if he misses any day of the trial, even for Barron’s graduation.”
False
April 29, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on April 17, 2024 a post on Facebook
Hunter Biden, “BLM rioters” and “COVID criminals” have “0 indictments”
False
By Madison Czopek • April 24, 2024
Nancy Mace
Nancy Mace
stated on March 30, 2024 a post on X
“Since Joe Biden took office, crime has skyrocketed across our country.”
Mostly False
By Louis Jacobson • April 3, 2024
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on March 7, 2024 Public appearance
“We’re facing situations these days where you have to have two officers in the evidence room in case there’s an accidental (fentanyl) exposure.”
True
By Laura Schulte • March 29, 2024
Cavalier Johnson
Cavalier Johnson
stated on February 25, 2024 X, formerly Twitter
In Milwaukee, we “never defunded the police.”
Mostly True
By Ricardo Torres • March 15, 2024
Tony Evers
Tony Evers
stated on February 11, 2024 TV interview
“We're having the largest classes of correctional officers we've ever had before.”
True
By Sophia Voight • March 6, 2024
Linda Rosenthal
Linda Rosenthal
stated on February 6, 2024 a quote in a news article
“Each year, more than $1 billion is stolen from” workers in New York state through wage theft.
Mostly True
By Jefrey Canova, Ciaran Conneely • February 21, 2024
Kelda Helen Roys
Kelda Helen Roys
stated on February 1, 2024 Public appearance
Minnesota incarcerates “about a third of what Wisconsin does.”
True
By Laura Schulte • February 14, 2024
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on February 5, 2024 a TikTok video
Killer Mike arrested at Grammy Awards for not endorsing Joe Biden on “Real Time with Bill Maher.”
Pants on Fire!
February 5, 2024
TikTok posts
TikTok posts
stated on January 4, 2024 una publicación en TikTok
"El papa Juan Pablo II aparece varias veces en los vuelos hacia la isla Epstein".
False
January 11, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on January 3, 2024 an X post
Jimmy Kimmel was on the Jeffrey Epstein list, documents show.
Pants on Fire!
January 4, 2024
Nick LaLota
Nick LaLota
stated on November 18, 2023 a social media post
Under New York’s Clean Slate Act “violent crimes … will now be automatically sealed after a set time - like they never happened.”
Mostly False
By Jill Terreri Ramos • January 1, 2024
Instagram posts
Instagram posts
stated on December 10, 2023 an Instagram post
Photo shows a woman named Araceli Hernandez who “was kidnapped by George Floyd and brutally beaten during a home invasion.”
False
By Loreben Tuquero • December 11, 2023
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