365 days 🤗

Without George Floyd committing another crime.

Remember when he put a gun to a pregnant woman's belly?

Such a saint George is 🤗

@chesstachio said
Without George Floyd committing another crime.

Remember when he put a gun to a pregnant woman's belly?

Such a saint George is 🤗

In the wake of worldwide protests against police brutality following the death of George Floyd, some internet users are spreading misinformation about Floyd’s arrest record.

Floyd had multiple brushes with the law and was sentenced to serve five years in prison for his involvement in an armed robbery in 2007 while he still lived in Houston.

But the facts of the incident have gotten muddled on the internet, and some posts claim the woman robbed, Aracely Henriquez, was pregnant and that Floyd beat her and threatened to kill her baby. Social media users are also sharing a photo of a woman with bruises and cuts on her face, claiming it’s Henriquez.

Here, the photo appears on Instagram. We won’t repost the text or image here, because the photo is not of Henriquez, and several of the details about the robbery are either made up or exaggerated.

The post was flagged as part of Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.)

The woman in the photo is Andrea Sicignano, an American student who was assaulted and raped in Madrid in 2018. Sicignano posted the photo on her Facebook page and Spanish news outlet El Pais published a story about the incident.

On June 12, 2020, Sicignano took to Facebook and said her photo is being misused to spread misinformation about Floyd.

"There has been a photo of me circulating around on the internet since yesterday. The photo was taken of me in a hospital bed in Spain after being violently beaten and raped by a stranger," Sicignano wrote in the post. "I posted my story over a year ago to use my voice to spread awareness and encourage other women to speak out about the injustices they've faced. Today my photo is being used as political propaganda/click bait to make people believe that George Floyd deserved to die. I am disgusted and humiliated, not for myself, but for my country."

@kmax87

Have you even looked at his arrest record?

No you haven't.

But...but... It makes you feel good to say he was a victim 🤗
Spare me your ignorance.

@chesstachio said
@kmax87

Have you even looked at his arrest record?

No you haven't.

But...but... It makes you feel good to say he was a victim 🤗
Spare me your ignorance.

While the photo has been debunked, investigators did conclude that Floyd and others barged into a woman’s home and pushed a pistol into her abdomen while his associates burglarized her home. That was in 2007 in Houston, Texas.

What happened to Floyd on that street in Minneapolis was terrible. But it in no way suddenly turned him into a martyred saint in anyone’s mind not clouded by political and racial hatred.

It was A Very Bad cop encountering A Very Bad human being.

@suzianne said
A jury of his peers convicted Derek Chauvin of murder.

That fact is not going to change because some white people are butt-hurt.

@chesstachio said
@kmax87

Have you even looked at his arrest record?

No you haven't.

But...but... It makes you feel good to say he was a victim 🤗
Spare me your ignorance.

@liljo said
While the photo has been debunked, investigators did conclude that Floyd and others barged into a woman’s home and pushed a pistol into her abdomen while his associates burglarized her home. That was in 2007 in Houston, Texas.

What happened to Floyd on that street in Minneapolis was terrible. But it in no way suddenly turned him into a martyred saint in anyone’s mind not clouded by political and racial hatred.

It was A Very Bad cop encountering A Very Bad human being.

@chesstachio said
Yep.

And you think OJ was innocent too.

And Michael Jackson never did those terrible things to little boys and Bill Cosby is innocent!

Traitor.

@chesstachio said
Yep.

And you think OJ was innocent too.

And Michael Jackson never did those terrible things to little boys and Bill Cosby is innocent!

Traitor.

The post that was quoted here has been removed

@chesstachio said
@kmax87

Have you even looked at his arrest record?

No you haven't.

But...but... It makes you feel good to say he was a victim 🤗
Spare me your ignorance.

@chesstachio said
Without George Floyd committing another crime.

Remember when he put a gun to a pregnant woman's belly?

Such a saint George is 🤗

@chesstachio said
Yep.

And you think OJ was innocent too.

And Michael Jackson never did those terrible things to little boys and Bill Cosby is innocent!

Traitor.