GOP Rep Lies That “Illegal Alien” Is KC Mass Shooter

February 19, 2024 Mass Shootings, Republicans

Newsweek reports:

Representative Tim Burchett of Tennessee, a Republican, has come under fire after falsely claiming on social media that one of the shooters at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl celebration parade last week was “an illegal alien.”

Burchett’s claim on X has been corrected on the social media platform, where readers have added context specifying the individual in the picture was not one of the shooters.

A fact-check by Reuters mentions local reports saying that the individual in the picture was arrested for drunkenness at the parade and later released.

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