Who caused violence at the George Floyd protests? It wasn't antifa. | The Fact Checker
On May 30 — five days after George Floyd died in police custody and four after protests erupted across Minneapolis — President Trump first said the anti-fascist group antifa was behind the violence that abruptly swept across the country. He has repeated this claim nearly 20 times since. The nations top law enforcement officials, including FBI director Christopher Wray and Attorney General William Barr, echoed his attacks.
The Fact Checker video team spoke to eyewitnesses, reviewed arrest records, federal charges, intelligence reports, online conversation and dozens of videos and photos from violent incidents from the early days of protests in Minneapolis to determine if a coordinated antifa action was responsible for the violence. Read more: https://wapo.st/2V7p1fY. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK
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