While families grieve their children and loved ones – gunned down by a person who entered a school in Nashville, Tennessee on March 27, 2023 – certain social media users started circulating rumours that the incident was staged. Some have seized on discrepancies between two different videos of the assailant, one captured by a security camera, another by a police officer. These social media users claim that it looks like the assailant is wearing sneakers made by the brand Vans in one image and Pumas in another, proof, they say, that the whole thing was set up. We were able to determine that the shoes appear different due to the resolution of the videos in question – they are actually the same pair of Vans.
