{"id":1517314,"date":"2022-06-15T13:20:25","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1517314"},"modified":"2022-06-15T13:20:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T17:20:50","slug":"fact-check-viral-post-falsely-claims-fathers-of-uvalde-school-shooting-victim-are-crisis-actors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-viral-post-falsely-claims-fathers-of-uvalde-school-shooting-victim-are-crisis-actors\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: Viral Post Falsely Claims Fathers Of Uvalde School Shooting Victim Are Crisis Actors"},"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\">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-viral-post-falsely-claims-fathers-of-uvalde-school-shooting-victim-are-crisis-actors%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=1517314&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--><p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oh.zane.92\/posts\/pfbid0mk1k2jEi12GuuhzaYBQJowNnKKi53gGYU6Q5wchs4EZvYJGk6zw6vKHP65MAkgCHl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Facebook<\/a> alleges that two men who claim to be the father of a girl who was killed in the Uvalde school shooting are crisis actors.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence that the two men are crisis actors. One is the victim\u2019s step-father, while the other is her biological father.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A May 24 school shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas left 19 children and two faculty members dead, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/uvalde-schools-police-chief-defends-response-mass-shooting\/story?id=85301681\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC News<\/a>.\u00a0A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/oh.zane.92\/posts\/pfbid0mk1k2jEi12GuuhzaYBQJowNnKKi53gGYU6Q5wchs4EZvYJGk6zw6vKHP65MAkgCHl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">video<\/a> shared on Facebook on June 1 suggests the shooting was a false flag operation. It shows footage of two men, both identified as the father of victim Amerie Jo Garza, giving separate interviews to two different news networks about the attack. The post presents this fact as an inconsistency that is evidence of the\u00a0false flag operation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[THEY] think we are stupid,\u201d reads the video\u2019s caption. \u201cNBC &#038; CNN Interview Two Different Crisis Actor \u2018fathers\u2019 of the Same Girl in Uvalde, Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is no evidence the two men are crisis actors.\u00a0The first man, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xvPOGcHrpRU&#038;ab_channel=CNN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interviewed<\/a> by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, is Angel Garza. Although the CNN news banner initially described him as Amerie Jo Garza\u2019s father, it was later clarified in articles published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/us\/live-news\/texas-elementary-school-shooting-05-27-22\/h_66b73782692bacaa95f3e25d03486663\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcdfw.com\/news\/national-international\/med-aide-learned-stepdaughter-was-killed-from-classmate-he-shot-my-best-friend\/2978728\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC 5<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/amerie-jo-garza-girl-scouts-texas-school-shooting-posthumous-award\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CBS News<\/a> that he was Amerie Jo Garza\u2019s step-father. The second man, who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.today.com\/news\/news\/families-of-texas-school-shooting-victims-recount-tragic-day-rcna30614\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">interviewed<\/a> by Today Show anchor Savannah Guthrie, is Alfred Garza III. He is described as Amerie Jo Garza\u2019s biological father in articles published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/05\/29\/us\/uvalde-texas-elementary-school-shooting-week\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksat.com\/news\/local\/2022\/06\/07\/i-dont-want-my-daughters-name-tarnished-by-just-how-she-died-father-of-amerie-jo-garza-vows-to-keep-fighting-for-justice\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">KSAT News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Amerie Jo Garza\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hillcrestmemorialfuneralhome.com\/obituaries\/Amerie-Garza\/#!\/Obituary\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">obituary<\/a> clarifies this by stating, \u201cShe is survived by her father, Alfred Garza III and companion Viviana Granados, of Uvalde; mother, Kimberly Garcia and step-father Angel Garza.\u201d\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/30\/fact-check-uvalde-texas-school-shooting-crisis-actor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Was The \u2018Same Actor\u2019 Present At The Sandy Hook Shooting And The Uvalde, Texas Shooting?)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first time online users have claimed there were crisis actors at the scene of the Uvalde school shooting. Check Your Fact previously <a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2022\/05\/30\/fact-check-uvalde-texas-school-shooting-crisis-actor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">debunked<\/a> claims that the same woman was a victim at both the Uvalde and the Sandy Hook school shootings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Facebook alleges that two men who claim to be the father of a girl who was killed in the Uvalde school shooting are crisis actors.Verdict: FalseThere<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"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-1517314","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\/1517314","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\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517314\/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=1517314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}