Did Emma Gonzáles of "March for our Lives" rip up the United States Consititution on video? An animated meme being spread on social media seems to show Gonzales and three other students who survived the school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida doing just that but the video is manipulated. Here's an example in the wild in a tweet from @getongab, an alt-right friendly social network:
Not gonna happen. pic.twitter.com/4kKBcSqdCl
-- Gab: Free Speech Social Network (@getongab) March 24, 2018
We archived that tweet here in case it goes down.
In fact the video came from a shoot for Teen Vogue, as Philip Picardi, Chief Content Officer for that magazine, clarifies on Twitter:
The fact that we even have to clarify this is proof of how democracy continues to be fractured by people who manipulate and fabricate the truth. pic.twitter.com/cpSXnvLxdA
-- Phillip Picardi (@pfpicardi) March 25, 2018
As you can clearly see, Gonzáles is actually ripping up a paper target of the kind normally found at a shooting range.
While you can argue the "March for our Lives" movement indeed seeks to rip up the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in a figurative sense, the literal events in the video did not take place. Even though it was probably meant to be "just a meme", some sort of crowdsourced editorial cartoon offering an observation on current events, it looks quite realistic and could potentially fool many people into believing things really happened that did not occur.
