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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
6. Desire for attention and a fat paycheck? She suddenly flipped from being anti- to pro-Trump
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 12:54 AM
Jun 2020

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

Azathoth

(4,608 posts)
4. "placed a pistol against the complaintant's abdomen"
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 12:38 AM
Jun 2020

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)
5. They lied about the photo. I'm assuming they made the pregnancy up out of whole cloth, because
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 12:41 AM
Jun 2020

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)
7. Haven't seen that photo
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 12:54 AM
Jun 2020

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)
9. What it changes is that to the idiots they made up this lie for,
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:14 AM
Jun 2020

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

pnwmom

(108,977 posts)
10. It doesn't in a world ruled by logic and reason. Unfortunately, the people they're trying
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:21 AM
Jun 2020

to reach with this lie will react with horror, and it will affect their reaction to Floyd's death.

Cha

(297,196 posts)
13. Candace Owens is a Lying Filthy POS.. she may think she's
Thu Jun 18, 2020, 01:40 AM
Jun 2020

helping BLOTUS but she's making it exponentially Worse.

IOW.. CO is Stupid, too.

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