{"id":13138,"date":"2024-03-13T16:00:07","date_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13138"},"modified":"2024-03-13T16:00:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-13T16:00:08","slug":"fact-check-charges-dropped-after-suspect-misidentified-in-attack-on-nypd-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=13138","title":{"rendered":"Fact Check: Charges dropped after suspect misidentified in attack on NYPD officers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> &#8220;Charges against a man initially arrested as a suspect for attacking police officers in New York City were dropped, according to the Manhattan District Attorney, because he had been misidentified as a participant in the January 2024 brawl, not because crime by a \u201cmigrant\u201d has \u201cno consequences,\u201d as suggested in social media posts.<br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/factcheck-usa-boada-nypd\" target=\"_blank\">Posts on social media, opens new tab<\/a>\u00a0shared a photograph showing a 22-year-old Venezuelan man, Jhoan Boada, with captions such as: \u201cThe Manhattan DA just dropped all charges against Jhoan Boada, 22, migrant who flipped the bird at photographers following his involvement in a gang attack on the NYPD. No consequences.\u201d&#8230;&#8221;The Manhattan DA\u2019s office said in an email, citing court documents, that, \u201cAfter a thorough and diligent investigation, Jhoan Boada has been exonerated as a participant in this assault\u201d and that the complaint against Boada was dismissed.The DA\u2019s office told the court that another man, Marcelino Estee, had been identified as the person described in the complaint as \u201cwearing the black &amp; white jacket with pink shoes, committing this assault\u201d and that Estee had been charged for his participation.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/fact-check\/charges-dropped-after-suspect-misidentified-attack-nypd-officers-2024-03-13\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/fact-check\/charges-dropped-after-suspect-misidentified-attack-nypd-officers-2024-03-13\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Charges against a man initially arrested as a suspect for attacking police officers in New York City were dropped, according to the Manhattan District Attorney, because he had been misidentified as a participant in the January 2024 brawl, not because crime by a \u201cmigrant\u201d has \u201cno consequences,\u201d as suggested in social media posts.<\/p>\n<p>Posts on social media, opens new tab shared a photograph showing a 22-year-old Venezuelan man, Jhoan Boada, with captions such as: \u201cThe Manhattan DA just dropped all charges against Jhoan Boada, 22, migrant who flipped the bird at photographers following his involvement in a gang attack on the NYPD. No consequences.\u201d<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n&#8220;The Manhattan DA\u2019s office said in an email, citing court documents, that, \u201cAfter a thorough and diligent investigation, Jhoan Boada has been exonerated as a participant in this assault\u201d and that the complaint against Boada was dismissed.<br \/>\nThe DA\u2019s office told the court that another man, Marcelino Estee, had been identified as the person described in the complaint as \u201cwearing the black &#038; white jacket with pink shoes, committing this assault\u201d and that Estee had been charged for his participation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/fact-check\/charges-dropped-after-suspect-misidentified-attack-nypd-officers-2024-03-13\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[744,493,25,1029,600,1146,610],"class_list":["post-13138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-crime","tag-immigrants","tag-immigration","tag-misinformation","tag-new-york","tag-right-wing","tag-right-wing-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13139,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13138\/revisions\/13139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}