{"id":1490036,"date":"2022-05-24T13:31:05","date_gmt":"2022-05-24T17:31:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490036"},"modified":"2022-05-24T13:31:08","modified_gmt":"2022-05-24T17:31:08","slug":"washington-post-rewrites-history-of-george-floyds-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-rewrites-history-of-george-floyds-death\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Post Rewrites History of George Floyd\u2019s Death"},"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\">16<\/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%2Fwashington-post-rewrites-history-of-george-floyds-death%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=1490036&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>The <em>Washington Post\u00a0<\/em>on Monday falsely claimed that George Floyd, who was killed when a police officer kneeled on his neck, was shot to death.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet that the <em>Post<\/em> deleted within minutes, the outlet said, &#8220;On May 25, 2020, George Floyd was shot and killed in police custody.&#8221; The tweet linked to a page that asked readers to submit comments on how their community has changed since Floyd&#8217;s death. According to Newsbusters managing editor Curtis Houck, that page also falsely claimed Floyd was shot to death.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Not only did The Washington Post mess this up in their tweet (left) about how George Floyd died, they did the same thing on their own website (right) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/nWhNEAvFke\">pic.twitter.com\/nWhNEAvFke<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CurtisHouck\/status\/1528916500815429632?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 24, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>While Floyd was killed in police custody when officer Derek Chauvin kneeled on his neck for more than nine minutes, he was never shot. The <em>Post<\/em>, after deleting the tweet and correcting the language on the webpage, did not acknowledge the specific error but issued a brief <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/washingtonpost\/status\/1528924377743605765?s=20&#038;t=g-dkhq1_O7wQLxhcBwAWkA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">note<\/a> reading, &#8220;We&#8217;ve deleted a previous tweet for this form that included language that was changed after publish [sic].&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s error is not the first time the <em>Post<\/em> has rewritten historical events. In 2019, the paper through a free daily newspaper it published <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/washington-post-publication-mislabels-segregationists-as-republicans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrongly identified<\/a> segregationist Democratic senators James Eastland and Herman Talmadge as Republicans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Washington Post\u00a0on Monday falsely claimed that George Floyd, who was killed when a police officer kneeled on his neck, was shot to death. 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