A conspiracy theory about the Nashville school shooting involves mismatched shoes. Here’s why it is Pants on Fire!
But some people falsely suggested the video provided evidence the mass shooting was staged. Their proof? The shooter’s shoes.
"What appears to be different pants and shoes on in the two videos released almost immediately to the public… I’m gonna let you tell me what your thoughts are?" read the caption on a March 29in which a woman pointed out what she said were inconsistencies in what the shooter was wearing in one image to the next.
"Can someone please tell me I’m a crazy conspiracy theorist and offer a perfectly normal explanation as to why the Nashville shooter had one pair of shoes on when they walk in and a different pair on when they are killed?" another person wrote onThe Instagram post was flagged as part of Meta’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed.
So, was there some strange changing of the shoes in the middle of this shooting? No. And there’s no evidence this tragedy was staged either.
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