Proof of Fake News By Charles Taylor (Florida)
This one might seem to be a light and fluffy item, but there is still a deeper point to be made. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), were led away by police at a pro-abortion protest. They held their hands behind their backs to give the impression of being handcuffed, but were not, as at one point AOC gives the raised fist Black Power salute. So, she was not cuffed. Yet ABC News photographed this to give the impression of the two radical Leftists being cuffed. It shows very clearly that the media will manipulate data to produce the political effects it wants for its Leftist narrative. If they are dishonest about this, they can be dishonest about even more important things … and they are.
“ABC News perpetuated Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s (D-NY) fake propaganda when it shared photographs that appeared to show her and Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) being handcuffed by police.
As viral video revealed on Tuesday, the two congresswomen were filmed holding their hands behind their backs as if they were handcuffed while being escorted by police away from a pro-abortion protest in front of the Supreme Court. At one point, AOC’s “miraculously” disappeared so she could throw up a power symbol.
Of course, nobody would know this if they were getting their information solely from ABC News, which showed AOC and Ilhan Omar from a different angle in order to feign the appearance that two congresswomen were being escorted away from a pro-abortion protest in handcuffs.
ABC News made sure to mention that “no handcuffs were seen” several paragraphs into the report.
Seventeen lawmakers in total were arrested, according to Capitol Police, including Reps. Katherine Clark of Massachusetts, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, and Illinois’ Jan Schakowsky. The charge was crowding, obstructing or incommoding, police said.
Officers at the Supreme Court told the protesters that they were participating in “illegal demonstration activity” before advising anyone who didn’t want to get arrested to leave, which sparked singing and chanting from the group.
Officers then began arresting the demonstrators, though no handcuffs were seen. Police also collected IDs and took pictures of those arrested — including of some of the lawmakers — and brought water to the staging area for protesters to drink.’
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