Snopes says David Hogg did NOT Lie about being on campus during mass shooting...

[riversedge]

I try not to hate some folks, but it is increasingly difficult not to when crap like this happens.




Did David Hogg Lie About Being on Campus During Mass Shooting?

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/david-hogg-on-campus-rumor-hoax/



Conspiracy theorists used an out-of-context clip to raise "questions" about a statement made by a Parkland, Florida mass shooting survivor turned gun-control advocate.

CLAIM

Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg was caught lying about being on campus during a February 2018 school shooting when he told CBS that he had to get on his bicycle and ride to school.
RATING
False


ORIGIN

In the days following massive 24 March 2018 demonstrations around the world advocating for more stringent gun laws in the United States sparked by survivors of a mass shooting in Florida the month before that left seventeen people dead, the conspiracy theorist world convulsed as it attempted to create and promulgate rumors to discredit the faces of the movement.

One such rumor seized on a statement by Marjory Stoneman Douglas student David Hogg during an interview excerpted from a CBS documentary in which he said:

On the day of the shooting, I got my camera and got on my bike and rode as fast as I could three miles from my house to the school to get as much video and to get as many interviews as I could because I knew that this could not be another mass shooting.

Hogg, like many survivors of mass shootings, has already been accused of being a crisis actor and a fake student. The attacks only increased after he and a small group of fellow students formed a small, but outspoken group of gun-control advocates which swelled and coalesced into the huge #NeverAgain movement.

This fragment of a statement to CBS was offered up as proof by would-be detractors that Hogg was not actually on campus during the shooting, that he was at home and had to ride his bicycle with a camera through three ghoulish miles to play his part and take photographs of dead bodies after the fact. RedState.com, for example, wrote:.....

[underpants]

1. Thanks. I'd seen this mentioned on Facebook

I knew it was bullshit but now I have proof.

[Igel]

3. This seems silly.

It's clearly taking things out of context, but does go to his being shell-shocked at the time. First impulse: Must record this because it could be useful to him.

I do take issue with his apparently knowing what it's like to look at the barrel of Cruz's pointed at him. It's full of pathos, but I could say the same thing with as much truth. In other words, I have no experience with being at the working end of a gun with the person at the other end ready to use it on me. I can imagine, but any of us can do that.

I simply don't think he was in the right part of the school for that. Not even aware if he was within easy earshot of the gunfire.

[CousinIT]

2. The alt-right claim Snopes is run by George Soros or some asinine shit

Or, that Snopes is "fake news" - something like that.

Pfft.

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

4. When Dubya was in office, every question about him was resolved in his favor

even when there was videotape evidence showing the opposite was true. Accusing Snopes of being a liberal source is laughable.