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April 8, 2021, 10:14 am
Being banned from most mainstream social media platforms for spreading misinformation has not stopped Alex Jones from annoying people, as evidenced by a recent video he released in which he terrorizes a charity staff member who was trying to take some migrant kids to get COVID tests.
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In the video, he and his crew approach a vehicle owned by Catholic Charities, which provides help to migrant families who have recently arrived in the U.S., and start screaming at the driver, accusing him of human smuggling and yelling for the police to be called.
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Snopes has already rated the claim that Jones “saved” these kids, who were with their mother, from being smuggled into or around the U.S. or whatever as false due to a complete lack of evidence that anything other than a quick drive to a COVID testing site was happening.
At the very worst, Catholic Charities is guilty of not proving the children with proper booster seats and seatbelts, though by the look of the car itself, this seems likely to be a problem of a lack of resources.
People who are already suspicious of Alex Jones due to his long history of pushing outlandish and sometimes extremely harmful conspiracy theories, such as claiming the Sandy Hook school shooting was a false flag operation, have accused him of staging the video. Meanwhile, those who are pushing the idea that there is a border crisis and that this means the scary immigrants are going to take the U.S. away from white people are praising Jones for calling the cops on a Latino man working for a charity.
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The video, edited by Jones’ staff and labeled “banned video,” starts with Jones and his team of camera operators approaching the Catholic Charities vehicle, with Jones heard saying “they’re piling in the car right now.” One of his staff demands to know if they have a car seat for the small children, who are climbing into the back of the white hatchback.
“Where are you taking these kids?” another asks the confused charity worker.
Jones then starts yelling for the police because “they’ve got a bunch of kids without a car seat.” He then accuses the kids and their mother of being here illegally, which he had no particular reason to believe other than they appeared to be Latine, and starts pushing on the front of the car as though that could stop it if the driver really wanted to get away.
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Most of the rest of the video is Jones and the other guy yelling and pointing a finger in the charity worker’s face, repeatedly accusing him of “literally human smuggling.”
At one point the worker tries to calmly explain that he’s just taking the kids down the street to be tested for COVID-19, as is now standard practice at Catholic Charities. Jones’ cohort claims this is impossible because “they came from over there.”
Turns out the COVID testing center is a little bit further away from the Catholic Charities center than “over there,” and would easily justify a car ride for a clearly exhausted mother and her five or more children.
By the end, the police have arrived and the driver shows an officer the interior of the car and identifies the woman as the children’s mother while Jones and his team continue to yell into the sky like it’s an end-times preacher convention.
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So far, both Snopes and Newsweek have not heard back from the local police on their findings. Snopes was able to find a recent article explaining how Catholic Charities has been taking in hundreds of migrants recently released by the U.S. government into the U.S. who need help and have been getting them COVID tests. If Jones is really so upset that they don’t have enough car seats for ideally safe transportation of children, he could probably afford to donate some out of his vitamin supplement profits.
It seems likely that this is another case of Alex Jones making a big deal out of nothing by being really loud about it, but people who have been burned by him too many times are convinced that the whole thing was staged.
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*First Published: April 8, 2021, 10:14 am
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