Seahawks Locker Room Flag Burning

A doctored photograph purportedly showed a member of the seattle seahawks setting a u s.

Seahawks locker room flag burning.

Did an nfl player burn an american flag in a locker room. There have been no reports of flag burning by the seahawks. Fact check fauxtography did an nfl player burn an american flag in a locker room. A doctored photograph purportedly showed a member of the seattle seahawks setting a u s.

This particular fake news story was based on an image photoshopped to show seattle seahawks defensive end michael bennett burning a us flag while teammates and head coach pete carroll cheered on in the locker room. In it bennett one of several professional football players who has. This one has been going around for a while so we wanted to show how you can know it s fake without resorting to a debunker site. Flag in a locker room as his teammates including sherman looked on.

The seahawks flag burning in the. Football season is returning and so are fake controversies. Bennett the player featured in the image has been a prominentsupporterof the anthem protests. Last thursday a member of the facebook page vets for trump posted a photo of seattle seahawks defensive end michael bennett.

The bennett story was based on a photo that was altered to show him holding a burning u s. False reports that the seattle seahawks burned an american flag in the team s locker room came from a photo that was manipulated with photo editing software. The photograph which has made its way across facebook and twitter shows seattle seahawks defensive end michael bennett enthusiastically burning the flag in a locker room as his. After being tradedto the new england patriots in march he said that he would remain in the locker room during the anthem instead of kneeling or sitting.