{"id":1048684,"date":"2021-11-23T15:13:34","date_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1048684"},"modified":"2021-11-23T15:13:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T20:13:38","slug":"fact-check-does-this-image-show-the-suspect-who-plowed-through-the-waukesha-christmas-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-does-this-image-show-the-suspect-who-plowed-through-the-waukesha-christmas-parade\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Does This Image Show The Suspect Who Plowed Through The Waukesha Christmas Parade?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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-does-this-image-show-the-suspect-who-plowed-through-the-waukesha-christmas-parade%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=1048684&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\/john.mikovitsiii\/posts\/10223458225301654\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> purportedly shows the man who sped through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The man shown in the photo is comedian Sam Hyde, who is not a suspect in the case.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A red SUV plowed through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Nov. 21, killing five people and injuring 40 others, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/gunshots-fired-holiday-parade-wisconsin-local-cbs-affiliate-2021-11-21\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reuters<\/a> reported. Now, an image on Facebook shows a screen grab of a tweet including a photo of a man driving a red vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a photo of the man who plowed his vehicle in the #Waukesha Christmas parade,\u201d the tweet reads. \u201cPlease spread this image to help identify this villain.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/12\/31\/fact-check-photo-suspected-nashville-bomber-trump-2020-hat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Does This Photo Show The Suspected Nashville Bomber Wearing A \u2018Trump 2020\u2019 Hat?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The image shown in the screen grabbed tweet does not, however, show the suspect involved in the Waukesha parade incident. The man in the photo is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/name\/nm4235621\/\">Hyde<\/a>, a comedian who is often baselessly rumored to be a suspect after mass-killings as part of a long-running internet hoax, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/waukesha-suspect-misinformation-spread-fake-photo-suv-driver-shared-1651834\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newsweek<\/a>. The photo has been circulating online for years, and originally showed a silver car. For instance, the image showing Hyde in a silver car was used to accuse him of being a suspect in the 2017 London Bridge terror attack, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jimwaterson\/this-is-the-fake-news-being-spread-about-the-london-bridge\">BuzzFeed<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p>Waukesha authorities stated on Nov. 22 that they have Darrell Brooks Jr., the person suspected of plowing through the Christmas parade, in custody, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2021\/11\/22\/1058079403\/suspect-in-waukesha-christmas-parade-attack-had-prior-criminal-record\">NPR<\/a>. Brooks, who has a previous criminal record, was released from custody just days before the parade, according to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/11\/22\/us\/driver-parade-crash-suspect.html\">The New York Times<\/a>. He was in custody after being accused of running his girlfriend over with the same SUV used in the parade incident, the outlet reported.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks has been charged with five counts of homicide in connection to the Christmas parade and will appear in court on Nov. 23, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2021\/11\/23\/us\/waukesha-car-parade-crowd-tuesday\/index.html\">CNN<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An image shared on Facebook purportedly shows the man who sped through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin.Verdict: False The man shown in the photo is comedian Sam Hyde, who &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"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-1048684","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\/1048684","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\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048684\/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=1048684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}