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  • 2017-02-08 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Trump Supporter Kick a Pregnant Muslim Woman in the Stomach? (en)
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  • On 8 February 2017, the web site Alternative Media Syndicate published an article reporting that a Trump supporter had kicked a pregnant Muslim woman in the stomach, killing her two unborn twins: That article was based on a real incident which took place in August 2016 in England. The Thames Police Department took to Facebook to state that David Gallacher had been charged with a number of offenses stemming from that incident (and another which took place a month later), including assault,racially/religiously aggravated assault, and assaulting a police officer: Shortly after the charges were announced, Metro published an article on the topic and noted that the female victim in the August 2016 assault was a Somali Muslim and had been pregnant with twins at the time of the attack: Similar reports were filed by BBC, the Independent and the International Business Times. None of these publications identified the accused as a Trump supporter, and as this incident occurred in the United Kingdom, it's unlikely that Gallacher had any substantive ties to American politics. Alternative Media Syndicate claimed that Gallacher expressed support for President Trump on his social media pages but did not provide any evidence (such as links to his profiles or screenshots of his timeline) documenting this assertion, nor the suggestion that Gallacher's putative political preferences had anything to do with the motivation behind his actions. Furthermore, the image displayed above does not show the woman who was reportedly attacked by Gallacher. That photograph has been online since at least 2012, and Alternative Media Syndicate noted at the bottom of their article that it was taken from similar incident in France, for illustrative purposes. (en)
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