“The mayor called terror attacks ‘part and parcel’ of life — he doesn’t care.”
Circulated after London attacks, from 2017.
Verdict: Misleading (quote chopped)
The record
The full sentence tells you to be prepared. The clip stops halfway.
The quote is real. The edit is what does the work. Speaking in September 2016, after a bombing in New York, the Mayor said: “Part and parcel of living in a great global city is that you have got to be prepared for these things. You’ve got to be vigilant. You’ve got to support the police.”
Whole, it is an instruction to stay alert. Halved, it becomes a shrug. The half-sentence was pulled out months later and posted again within hours of attacks it had nothing to do with. One British MP called it a disgrace, using a terrorist attack for political gain.
- Full quote
- “…you have got to BE PREPARED for these things”
- The edit
- cut off mid-sentence, which reverses it
- Timing
- posted again within hours of unrelated attacks
