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PolitiFact Refuses To Rate Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris For Saying Michael Brown Was ‘Murdered’

Paul Bois
PolitiFact Refuses To Rate Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris For Saying Michael Brown Was ‘Murdered’
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Even though a grand jury, multiple (predominantly black) eyewitnesses, and a federal investigation determined that police officer Darren Wilson acted lawfully when using lethal force against teenager Michael Brown during a physical altercation, the allegedly unbiased PolitiFact refused to give a Truth-o-Meter rating of “Mostly False” or “Pants on Fire” to Sens. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and Kamala Harris (D-CA) for claiming the teen was “murdered.”

Last week, on the fifth anniversary of Brown’s death, both Harris and Warren commemorated the day by pushing the dangerous lie that officer Wilson murdered the black teen, whom witnesses testified to seeing assault the police officer just prior to being shot.

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