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  • 2021-10-28 (xsd:date)
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  • ‘Man Waves Down Police Officer to Slap Him’ – Truth or Fiction? (en)
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  • ‘Man Waves Down Police Officer to Slap Him’ Claim In October 2021 a man was accused of waving a police officer down just to slap him. Rating True Like this fact check? Reporting On October 27 2021, the Twitter account @Gritty20202 shared what looked like a screenshot of a headline, Man waves down officer just to slap him in the face, report says: Based AF pic.twitter.com/whIIFaE3fU — Gritty is the Way (@Gritty20202) October 28, 2021 On the same day, the Facebook page Gritty2020 shared the meme . On the image, text read: Man waves down officer just to slap him in the face, report says Florida is where wokes go to die... Please enable JavaScript Florida is where wokes go to die MAN CHARGED WITH BATTERY OF POLICE COURTESY: OUACHITA PARISH SHERIFF’S OFFICE TROY DAVIS [KNOE 8] Comments on the Facebook post and on Twitter typically supported the actions described in the image (or asked if a GoFundMe had been established for the individual described): All he did was prove we live in an authoritarian police state. You get slapped, not much will happen. Officer gets slapped, that’s felony assault on an officer, apparently. Crazy thing is they qualified it by saying the slap was unprovoked, suggesting that there’s a provoked version that would’ve been an easier case to beat[.] I laughed hard at this. This was dumb as hell but totally badass and I respect that a lot. Although neither iteration included a link to any contemporaneous news item about the described incident, KNOE (the news station whose call letters were visible in the screenshot) published an article on October 26 2021 with the headline depicted. It reported : MONROE, La. (KNOE) – A Ouachita Parish man has been accused of slapping a Monroe police officer unprovoked. According to an arrest report, it happened in the 1800 block of Grammont Street on the night of Oct. 24 [2021]. [...] [Troy] Davis followed that up with, F— the police, as he began walking away, the officer reported. Did a Mississippi Man Hack His Way Into Helping ‘Food Stamp’ Recipients? Although the Man waves down officer just to slap him in the face, report says meme resembled news-like images created for humorous effect (as seen in the example above), the image was not created as a meme. It referenced a legitimate article that appeared on the website for KNOE on October 26 2021 about a then-recent incident near Monroe, Louisiana. Posted in Fact Checks , Viral Content Tagged chyron , gritty , man waves down police officer , viral facebook posts , viral tweets (en)
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