“Democracy Dies in Darkness” is the official slogan of The Washington Post, but it seems the truth is slaughtered in plain sight.
The Post stated in a now-deleted tweet: “On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was shot and killed in police custody. His death sparked outrage, wide-scale protests, and calls to change policing. Two years later, what has — or hasn’t changed?”
Suffice it to say, the revelation was news to a lot of folks, given that the medical examiner who ruled Floyd’s death a homicide testified that heart disease and drug abuse — Â fentanyl and methamphetamine were found in his system — contributed to his death, but that the restraint of his body and compression of his neck by police were the primary causes.
Apparently, George Floyd was shot?
News to me. https://t.co/ExZKbV7Jyk pic.twitter.com/bkwEqScD01
— Marie Oakes (@TheMarieOakes) May 24, 2022
Given the newspaper’s status, it’s unconscionable that a mistake of this magnitude could be made about a story that gripped the nation by its throat for an entire year.
Curtis Houck, managing editor for Newsbusters, noted that the WaPo error also made it into the story published on the newspaper’s website, sharing a screenshot to support the claim.
Not only did The Washington Post mess this up in their tweet (left) about how George Floyd died, they did the same thing on their own website (right) pic.twitter.com/nWhNEAvFke
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 24, 2022
In acknowledging the deleted tweet, the Post simply noted a change in language: “We’ve deleted a previous tweet for this form that included language that was changed after publish.”
bruh. You didn’t have a typo. You literally LIED in both the tweet AND the article itself. You got caught re-writing history. pic.twitter.com/whWL7oL5Pe
— TheQuartering (Humble Bean Merchant) (@TheQuartering) May 24, 2022
The timing of the misinformation — see lie — proves to be fortuitous for conservative personality Candace Owens, as it calls attention to her documentary titled, “The Greatest Lie Ever Told: George Floyd and the Rise of BLM.”
In marking the 2-year anniversary of George Floyd’s death, Owens “revisits Minneapolis and the violent, racially-divided aftermath that fueled BLM’s global rise-and filled its coffers,” the film description said.
While the left celebrates Floyd as if he were a saint, as seen in hundreds of street murals across the nation, Owens tells the other side of the story that runs counter to that narrative.
“The Left has tried to present Floyd as ‘Saint George,’ assuring us that he was just ‘getting his life together,’ and working to set a good example for others,” Owens says. “But here’s the truth. Here is the person whose life and whose name are now ‘synonymous with justice.'”
Here’s a quick sampling of responses to the Wa-Po mistruth from Twitter:
WaPo writes that George Floyd “was shot & killed in police custody.”
He was never shot. He died of cardiopulmonary arrest & official autopsy found nothing to “support a diagnosis of traumatic asphyxia or strangulation.” His blood had 11 ng/mL of fentanyl.https://t.co/xtqA23zfk3 pic.twitter.com/27QapU2zaK
— Andy Ngô 🏳️🌈 (@MrAndyNgo) May 24, 2022
Washington Post next year: on May 25, 2020, Pontius Pilate, a Republican, strung up George Floyd and crucified him. pic.twitter.com/1QLEo8dDFc
— S^3 (@SuitedScorpio) May 24, 2022
Quite a day for the @washingtonpost – they lied about George Floyd being shot to death and this also happened too. Some top notch journalism happening there. pic.twitter.com/ft3gpnBsv5
— TheAmishTerp (@TheAmishTerp) May 24, 2022
The washington post just lied saying George Floyd was shot and killed. I told all of you they never cared about him this just proved it more. They lied about something that was on video and showed everywhere then want us to trust the media?
— Name N/A (@AnimeMangaH18Z) May 24, 2022
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