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Latest Fact-Checks In Civil Rights

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Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on October 24, 2017 in news release:
On NFL players protesting during the national anthem.  
Half Flip
By Tom Kertscher • October 25, 2017
Dane County Republican Party
Dane County Republican Party
stated on August 25, 2017 in a news release:
"The KKK was founded as the military arm of the Democratic Party." 
False
By D.L. Davis • October 23, 2017
Viral image
Viral image
stated on October 9, 2017 in Internet posts:
A viral image shows LeBron James wearing a T-shirt that reads, "We march, y’all mad. We sit down, y’all mad. We speak up, y’all mad. We die, y’all silent."
False
By Joshua Gillin • October 12, 2017
Viral image
Viral image
stated on August 22, 2017 in social media feeds:
"At the PEAK of slavery in 1860, only 1.4% of Americans owned slaves. What your history books (don't) tell you is that 3,000 blacks owned a total of 20,000 slaves the same year."
False
By Louis Jacobson • August 24, 2017
James Peterson
James Peterson
stated on June 23, 2017 in a ruling from the bench:
 "Ted Kaczynski has less restrictive confinement than the youth at Lincoln Hills."
Mostly True
By Alan Hovorka • August 18, 2017
Donald Trump
Donald Trump
stated on August 15, 2017 in a question-and-answer session with reporters:
White nationalist protesters in Charlottesville "had a permit. The other group didn’t have a permit."
Pants on Fire!
By Louis Jacobson • August 17, 2017
Joy Reid
Joy Reid
stated on August 13, 2017 in on NBC’s Meet The Press:
"The idea of putting up (Confederate) monuments actually didn’t happen right after the Civil War. It happened during the 1960s."
Mostly False
By John Kruzel • August 15, 2017
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on June 29, 2017 in a speech:
Says Dontre Hamilton "was shot 14 times by police for resting on a park bench in Milwaukee."
Mostly True
By Tom Kertscher • August 1, 2017
Infowars
Infowars
stated on June 14, 2017 in a website article:
Says Loretta Lynch was part of "a stunning collection of calls to violence and murder from the intolerant, unhinged leftists in the Democrat party."  
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • June 16, 2017
Hillary Clinton
Hillary Clinton
stated on May 31, 2017 in an interview:
"The best estimate is that 200,000 people in Wisconsin were either denied or chilled in their efforts to vote" in the 2016 presidential election.  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • June 9, 2017
Tammy Baldwin
Tammy Baldwin
stated on May 17, 2017 in a tweet:
"Voter turnout in 2016 was reduced by approx. 200,000 votes because of WI’s photo ID laws."  
Mostly False
By Tom Kertscher • May 24, 2017
Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate
Sheriff David Clarke for U.S. Senate
stated on April 5, 2017 in a fund-raising email:
Says Milwaukee County Sheriff David A. Clarke Jr. has said Black Lives Matter "is a terrorist movement, a hate group and calls it, Black LIES Matter."
True
By Tom Kertscher • April 17, 2017
Caitlyn Jenner
Caitlyn Jenner
stated on March 31, 2017:
Says North Carolina's replacement for HB2 "orders NC cities to discriminate against LGBT people until at least 2020 and unfair ‘bathroom bans’ remain."
False
By Will Doran • April 4, 2017
Resistance Report
Resistance Report
stated on March 2, 2017 in a website posting:
Says U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson "threatens citizens with arrest if they continue asking for a town hall."
Pants on Fire!
By Tom Kertscher • March 7, 2017
Citizen Action of Wisconsin
Citizen Action of Wisconsin
stated on February 28, 2017 in a website posting:
Says "people who come to" their dissent actions "get a ‘cease and desist’ letter" from Ron Johnson's office.
False
By Tom Kertscher • March 2, 2017
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 24, 2017 in a blog post:
Say George Soros's money "went straight into the (Women’s March) protesters’ pockets."
Pants on Fire!
By Jon Greenberg • January 25, 2017
George Takei
George Takei
stated on January 20, 2017 in a Tweet:
"The White House removed its climate change web page. And the healthcare, civil rights and LGBT sections."
Mostly True
By Lauren Carroll • January 23, 2017
Dan Patrick
Dan Patrick
stated on January 5, 2017 in remarks to reporters supporting legislation related to bathroom access:
"Martin Luther King said our lives begin to end the day we become silent on things that matter."
Half-True
By W. Gardner Selby • January 6, 2017
Gwen Moore
Gwen Moore
stated on November 18, 2016 in an interview:
Says Donald Trump "thinks stop-and-frisk is fine."
True
By Tom Kertscher • December 9, 2016
X posts
X posts
stated on December 6, 2016 in tweets:
In Wisconsin, "300,000 voters were turned away by the state’s strict voter ID law" in the 2016 presidential election.
False
By Tom Kertscher • December 7, 2016
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