{"id":1047844,"date":"2021-11-23T10:43:38","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:43:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1047844"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:43:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T15:43:41","slug":"fact-check-no-this-image-does-not-show-kenosha-police-unloading-bricks-for-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-image-does-not-show-kenosha-police-unloading-bricks-for-protesters\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Image Does Not Show Kenosha Police Unloading Bricks For Protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">28<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-this-image-does-not-show-kenosha-police-unloading-bricks-for-protesters%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1047844&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>An image <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=215657837374067&amp;id=100067895566857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows law enforcement in Kenosha, Wisconsin, leaving bricks at a location in the city to be used by protesters.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Verdict: False<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image actually shows police in Boston, Massachusetts, in early June of last year unloading bricks at their headquarters that had been removed from a damaged sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p><strong><span>Fact Check:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Nov. 19, a jury found 18-year-old Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty of all five charges brought against him in connection to the fatal shooting of two men and the nonfatal shooting of another during Aug. 25, 2020, protests in Kenosha, CNBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/19\/jury-finds-kyle-rittenhouse-not-guilty-in-kenosha-protest-shootings.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/11\/19\/jury-finds-kyle-rittenhouse-not-guilty-in-kenosha-protest-shootings.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1637722259929000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2cEHfXALzofAxCLzrAOLOu\">reported<\/a>. Protests in response to the verdict have taken place in Kenosha and other places across the country, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/kyle-rittenhouse-acquittal-sparks-protests-us\/story?id=81299021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the Nov. 17 Facebook post\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/permalink.php?story_fbid=215657837374067&amp;id=100067895566857\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">photo<\/a>, two police officers can be seen standing next to a black truck that has some bricks in its bed. The post alleges, \u201cDirty police aiding in the destructive protests about to happen in Kenosha, by unloading bricks in some areas\u2026 pass this around.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/18\/fact-check-kyle-wendy-rittenhouse-drive-protest-armed-rifle\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Did Kyle Rittenhouse\u2019s Mother Drive Him To The Kenosha Protest While He Was Armed With A Rifle?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image, however, predates Rittenhouse\u2019s acquittal by more than a year. It comes from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=886215608548007\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> of police in Boston, Massachusetts, that was shared on Facebook on June 1, 2020. In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/northeasternpd\/posts\/1401038196769858\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 2, 2020, Facebook post<\/a>, the Northeastern University Police Department identified the people seen in the footage as two of the department\u2019s officers, who had \u201ccollected the bricks and returned them to NUPD headquarters\u201d the previous day after \u201ccoming across a damaged brick sidewalk at the corner of Tremont and Coventry streets that posed a safety hazard for pedestrians due to loose, upturned and broken bricks.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Social media users previously shared the footage of the Northeastern University police officers along with <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/06\/09\/fact-check-video-boston-police-planting-bricks-george-floyd-protests\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">false claims<\/a> that they were \u201cplanting\u201d bricks near locations where protests against police brutality and racial injustice would be held. Such protests were <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/timeline-impact-george-floyds-death-minneapolis\/story?id=70999322\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sparked<\/a> by the police killing of George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, in Minneapolis in late May last year.<\/p>\n<p>Check Your Fact on Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/22\/fact-check-brick-piles-kenosha-rittenhouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> a viral image that purportedly showed stacks of bricks recently left in Kenosha that was actually taken in Dallas, Texas, in 2020. Kenosha Police Department Public Information Officer Lt. Joe Nosalik <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2021\/11\/22\/fact-check-brick-piles-kenosha-rittenhouse\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> Check Your Fact that claims of police finding piles of bricks at locations in the city were \u201cabsolutely false.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows law enforcement in Kenosha, Wisconsin, leaving bricks at a location in the city to be used by protesters.Verdict: False The image actually shows &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1047844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1047844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1047844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1047844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1047844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1047844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}