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  • 2016-09-30 (xsd:date)
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  • Two White Men Doused with Gasoline, Set on Fire by BLM (en)
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  • On 27 September 2016, the web site USATwentyFour.com published an article reporting that two white men had been doused in gasoline and set on fire by members of the Black Lives Matter movement near Baltimore: In addition to falsely connecting this video to a racial dispute involving the Black Lives Matter movement, USATwentyFour.com also falsely claimed that the media were censoring the story. The video shown above captured the gruesome and violent results of an altercation between co-workers that took place in December 2015, in which a one man reportedly ended up dousing two others with gasoline and setting them on fire: A wide range of mainstream media news outlets — local, national, and international — covered the story at the time it occurred, including Fox News, CBS News, Britain's Daily Mail, and the Baltimore Sun. None of the news accounts of the incident mentioned the Black Lives Matter movement or any form of racial protest in connection with the story, nor suggested that the races of the perpetrator and the victims was in any way a factor in what occurred. In fact, news reports quoted a co-worker as saying that the perpetrator had an ongoing workplace dispute with one of the victims, and they had agreed to settle the issue with a fight: (en)
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