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To: kabar

https://www.snopes.com/news/2020/06/12/george-floyd-criminal-record/


49 posted on 05/22/2021 8:10:41 AM PDT by Brian Griffin
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To: Brian Griffin
More lying and distorting by Snopes. Updated in Feb 2021. They should look at the toxicology report coming out of the Chauvin trial. \

The claims in this meme are a mixture of true and false, as we’ll document below. In brief, the alleged crimes and time periods are mostly accurate, with the caveat that Floyd was convicted of theft in 1998, not armed robbery. But the following information makes other aspects of the post misleading: Not all the crimes resulted in prison time, but rather jail sentences; no evidence suggests a woman involved in the 2007 charge was pregnant; it’s an exaggeration of toxicology results to claim Floyd “was high on meth” when he was choked by a cop, and there’s no proof that Floyd was “getting ready to drive a car” before his fatal encounter with police other than the fact that officers say they approached him as he sat in the driver’s seat of a vehicle.

57 posted on 05/22/2021 9:03:03 AM PDT by kabar
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