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  • 2019-02-25 (xsd:date)
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  • Was Bernie Sanders Arrested for Throwing Eggs at Civil Rights Protesters? (en)
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  • On 22 February 2019, the Facebook page for Republican Revival, a group whose purported mission is to help Americans see through the Progressive Liberal bias, posted a photograph of Bernie Sanders, the U.S. senator from Vermont who was once again seeking the Democratic nomination for President. The photograph showed a man being dragged off by two police officers and was accompanied by a caption proclaiming that In 1963 Bernie Sanders was arrested for throwing eggs at black civil rights protestors. This is the side of Bernie that CNN and the fake news media don’t want you to know: The photograph was one that surfaced during the 2016 presidential campaign and was verified at that time as a genuine picture of Sanders being hauled off to a police wagon by Chicago police -- but the real back story to the image was the opposite of what the viral Facebook post's caption claimed. The photograph was taken at a South Side protest in Chicago in 1963, when Sanders was 21 years old. According to the Chicago Tribune, Sanders was charged with resisting arrest in connection with a protest against segregation in area schools, not for throwing eggs at black civil rights protesters: When another photograph of Sanders engaged in civil rights activism emerged in February 2016, it was initially disclaimed as picturing someone else, but it proved to be a genuine image of Sanders speaking to fellow CORE members at a sit-in. Likewise, the arrest photograph was confirmed by the Sanders campaign as a real picture of him: Chicago magazine also weighed in on story behind the photograph back in March of 2016: (en)
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