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Tuesday, Apr. 27, 2021

Did the Chicago Police Department tweet a statement in support of Derek Chauvin?

Christiana Dillard, Lead Stories
no

The Chauvin tweet does not appear on the Chicago Police Department's Twitter account page and Lead Stories found no additional evidence that the Chauvin tweet is legitimate. The Chicago police Twitter account does not have any such tweet archived from its account.

According to its Twitter account, the Chicago Police Department did attempt to have the viral tweet containing the fake screenshot removed.

CWBChicago, which publishes public safety coverage about Chicago's neighborhoods, tweeted statistics about the viral tweet. A user asked whether the tweet violated Twitter's terms of service.

The Chicago Police Department responded: "We reported the tweet and were just notified by Twitter that they reviewed the content, and didn't find a violation of their policies, so no action will be taken at this time."

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