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This picture popped up all over the social media yesterday, purportedly of the 20th Anniversary of the #MillionManMarch, this incarnation named #JusticeOrElse which took place yesterday in D.C.
Except the picture was actually an AP photo from 1995. The march in 1995 was estimated between 400,000 and 800,000, depending upon what count you believed. But it did have substantial numbers. Yesterday, nowhere near those numbers.

Despite the fact that people in attendance would clearly know that this picture was an inaccurate representation of the event, many still pushed it:
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Because it wasn’t that huge?

BLM crazy:
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No truth?

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All three of the above pictures are fake, two from 1995 event, and one that looks like it’s from Europe.

What were the actual numbers? Since 1995, and that controversial count, the NPS does not give counts anymore.

This was CNN’s take:
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But in looking at a variety of videos and shots, it would seem a few thousand would be more accurate. Checking this CNN video, which does a pan shot, seems to show a few thousand, click on for video:
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Update:

Media also pushed the fake picture, including BET.
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Update:

One of the reasons RT (Kremlin-run Russian T.V.) is not to be trusted. They always push anti-U.S. radical protests such as Occupy and Black Lives Matter, or anything that implies chaos in the U.S. It’s one thing to not be there and be misled, it’s another to be there and push lies.

RT actually had cameras at the scene, if their video is to be believed, so they knew that the crowd pictures in their article are not accurate. Yet they ran the pictures anyway and claim ‘tens of thousands’ were at the march.

Meanwhile, after this story became the top Twitter article on the #MillionManMarch today, now the #JusticeOrElse Twitter account warns, don’t be using the old pictures:
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Nation of Islam coordinator still tries to claim yesterday’s event had over a million people:
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