Crime & justice fact checks

People who stole U.S. Postal Service uniforms are posing as postal workers and robbing people at gunpoint.

Publisher’s rating: False

Says George Floyd’s criminal history includes “23 arrests,” “3 car thefts” and many violent crimes.

Publisher’s rating: False

"They eliminated the funding for community policing."

Publisher’s rating: False

“Andrew Tate officially gets sentenced to 15 years in prison! (Found guilty).”

Publisher’s rating: False

Robert Crimo III, who's been charged with the Fourth of July mass shooting, is transgender.

Publisher’s rating: No Evidence

A photo shows Ghislaine Maxwell, who is charged with assisting accused sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, with Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts.

Publisher’s rating: False

"The Clintons, the Obamas & the Biden family are all involved in child trafficking & crimes against children, period."

Publisher’s rating: False

“Criminal caught after cutting off 37 man buns.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Anti-abortion activist sentenced to 57 months in prison for “handing roses and resources to women at an abortion facility.”

Publisher’s rating: False

Asked what his administration would be doing about "the gun problem," said, "We have done much more than most administrations. … We’ve done, actually, a lot."

Publisher’s rating: Half True

Archivada la denuncia de Vox por la agresión a Rocío de Meer por ser un montaje.

Publisher’s rating: Falso

"Every day on average 500 people die from gun violence."

Publisher’s rating: False

Video shows New York City police “arrest two young people for sleeping on concrete blocks.”

Publisher’s rating: False

"I'm the only front-line prosecutor in this race that's actually used the resources of the Wisconsin Crime Lab in the prosecution of cases."

Publisher’s rating: Mostly True

“Florida man charged with a hate crime” for defacing pride crosswalk

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

“There’s only one reporter on site” at the Ghislaine Maxwell trial.

Publisher’s rating: False

Fallece un vecino de Cerceda en extrañas circunstancias

Publisher’s rating: Falso

A Russian company secured Trump’s bond in E. Jean Carroll case.

Publisher’s rating: False

There are 500,000 “missing kids a year.”

Publisher’s rating: Mostly False

Tafari Campbell was “murdered.”

Publisher’s rating: False

The supplied material is related reporting, not the original PolitiFact review. It identifies Tafari Campbell as the Obamas’ personal chef and discusses his death, but it does not present evidence establishing that he was murdered. One excerpt repeats a claim that Campbell was preparing a tell-all manuscript before his death, attributing it to a source identified as Jonathan Gregory. The same excerpt says Campbell “drowned in July 2024” and notes that “No manuscript has been produced.” It offers no firsthand account, physical evidence, or investigative finding that his death was homicide. Another article says Campbell “drowned while paddleboarding” near the Obamas’ Martha’s Vineyard property and that the death was “officially ruled an accident.” It describes skepticism and theories about foul play, but supplies no supporting evidence for those theories. These excerpts therefore establish that murder allegations and suspicions circulated; they do not verify the allegation or provide enough detail to assess the underlying investigation.