Social media users are sharing a graphic photo, claiming it shows a man who used a gun to rob a Texas convenience store and was subsequently shot by every customer in the store. This claim is false: 2017 local media reports show that the photo came from security footage from Brazil and that the people with guns are police officers.
The pro-gun messages (graphic warning, here, here, here) show a graphic photo of a man lying on the floor of a convenience store with three people pointing guns at him, accompanied by the caption: ‘The one uses a gun to rob a Texas convenience store. The man was shot by every customer in the store. ”
The graphic footage from which the photo was taken can be seen on the 28 second market globoplay.globo.com/v/5911276/ on the website of the Brazilian news agency Globo. G1, part of the Globo network. Globo G1 reports here in Portuguese that the footage from the security camera of 31 May 2017 shows a 17-year-old man who used a gun to try to rob a pharmacy in Itumbiara in the state of Goiás in Brazil, but was shot dead by the shot. is. clothes of military police officers, four of whom happened to be in the store at the time (one officer is outside the lap behind a shelf, as seen in another camera corner shown at the end of the video above).
This account is supported by other local Goiás media reports, seen here, here, here and here, showing screenshots or videos of the same footage with the same explanation of what happened.
Around the 50 seconds of the video globoplay.globo.com/v/5911276/ on the shelves are the words’ fantil ‘(probably from’ infantil ‘with’ in ‘blocked by a product on the shelf),’ diversos ‘and “hygiene” can be seen, which is Portuguese for “child”, “diverse” and “hygiene”.
Goiás military police did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
VERDICT
Untrue. The video shows a man being shot by ordinary police officers in a pharmacy in Brazil.
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