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In early May 2017, far-right blog FreedomDaily.com posted a story with a misleading headline reporting that Rochester, Minnesota police had raided an Olive Garden restaurant where Obama’s Muslim refugees were, only to make aDISTURBING find inside: Rochester police Capt. John Sherwin told us by phone that authorities never raided an Olive Garden restaurant. Instead, they arrested two men, Abdi Omar Abukar, 21, and Idris Abdillahi Haji-Mohamed, 22, who are suspected of shooting at a third person while running through a parking lot shared by an Olive Garden in Rochester. Police believe the chase started at a nearby apartment complex.Sherwin said the immigration status of the men is not known and police do not have enough information on the third person to have a description of his ethnic background, telling us: Sherwin referred us to an article in the local newspaper, the Post-Bulletin, for an accurate representation of the incident. According to the paper, the shooting took place on 2 May 2017, and Akubar had a previous criminal history: No information regarding the nation of origin of the two suspects has been released to the public, but local news media reports say both men are originally from Rochester. Authorities have little information on the person who the two are suspected of chasing and firing on, and do not believe that person is being harbored by fellow refugees. Further, police did not raid an Olive Garden restaurant, nor did the incident occur at Olive Garden; the three men were simply seen running through a shared commercial parking lot. Sherwin told us that because Rochester has a large Somali population, it's not the first time the community has been the subject of a fake news item that appears to deliberately stir up fear about immigrants. The FreedomDaily.com article appears to have manipulated a local crime story to fit an anti-immigrant and anti-Muslim narrative.
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