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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCandace Owens keeps spreading the lie that Floyd put a gun in a pregnant woman's abdomen.
Here is the official court record that doesn't mention anything about a pregnant woman.
https://perma.cc/SJR4-68M3
MontanaMama
(23,314 posts)struggle4progress
(118,282 posts)so maybe she heard voices telling her to drink the bleach
Or maybe she just discovered she could squirrel away gold nuggets by playing in the conservative honky-tonk
kimbutgar
(21,138 posts)She hates that shes black.
dalton99a
(81,485 posts)Azathoth
(4,608 posts)Doesn't specifically say she was pregnant but I'm assuming they're getting that from some kind of interview with her or people who knew her.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)she's female, just like they attached a different woman's photo to their meme -- a victim of an assault in SPAIN. They probably figured she would never notice her photo was being used to smear Floyd, but she did, and she's very upset about it.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/is-this-really-aracely-henriquez/
Azathoth
(4,608 posts)Though I don't follow fringe right-wing social media so I'm sure there's a lot of their nonsense I haven't seen.
So far as I know, the part about her identifying Floyd as putting a gun to her stomach and pushing her inside is true.
No idea where the pregnancy part came from. My suspicion is that it comes from a news article or interview somewhere, since it's a pretty specific detail. But even if it isn't true, I don't see how that really changes anything.
pnwmom
(108,977 posts)the crime would be two potential "murders," not one -- depending on the age of the fetus.
It's obvious where the pregnancy story came from -- almost any woman under 50 could potentially be pregnant, and they added this detail to add to the overall horror. To them, it wasn't enough to say that he put a gun to her abdomen -- they had to add the pregnancy that is NOWHERE in any official record or legitimate source anywhere on the internet. I looked.
Just like they added a fake photo from Spain. That's where this rumor came from. About halfway down this page, on the left, is a tweet from the Spanish woman, Andrea Sisignano, along with the fake tweet supposedly showing a photo of Floyd's victim, attached to the claim that the victim was pregnant. But the photo was of Andrea Sisignano -- so why believe any part of that lying tweet?
https://factcheck.afp.com/posts-falsely-claim-photo-assault-survivor-shows-woman-robbed-george-floyd
underpants
(182,797 posts)I final found out details on the $20 bill. Geesh.
msongs
(67,405 posts)pnwmom
(108,977 posts)to reach with this lie will react with horror, and it will affect their reaction to Floyd's death.
Dirty Socialist
(3,252 posts)She can leave the plantation now
Cha
(297,196 posts)helping BLOTUS but she's making it exponentially Worse.
IOW.. CO is Stupid, too.