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Raise the Age claims another victim, shot dead on a Bronx bus

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Raise the Age claims another victim, shot dead on a Bronx bus By Post Editorial Board Published June 10, 2026, 6:00 a.m.

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Raise the Age claims another victim, shot dead on a Bronx bus By Post Editorial Board Published June 10, 2026, 6:00 a.m.

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Common ground

Add The New York Post on GoogleNew York’s perverse 2018 “Raise the Age” law empowered teens to carry guns and behave like thugs, safe in the knowledge that the courts would treat even vicious criminals as wayward children.

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Name Calling / Labeling, Appeal to Fear: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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eFinder identified 5 propaganda techniques in this article. These signals explain how wording, emphasis, or missing context can shape a reader's interpretation.

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Loaded Language 100% confidence
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Name Calling / Labeling 90% confidence
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Appeal to Fear 85% confidence
Building support by instilling anxiety or panic in the audience.
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Causal Oversimplification 90% confidence
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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 8 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Gov. Andrew Cuomo singed this idiocy into law”
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Multiple sources, including the OCFS and raisetheageny.org, explicitly state that Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the Raise the Age legislation into law.
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web search NEUTRAL — Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today signed legislation raising the age of criminal responsibility to 18-years-old, ensuring that young people in New York who commit ...
https://ocfs.ny.gov/main/news/article.php?idx=1486
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web search NEUTRAL — Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the “Raise the Age�” legislation into law, putting an end to New York's process of automatically charging all 16- and 17-year-olds ...
https://raisetheageny.org/history-of-raise-the-age/
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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2017 ... Governor Andrew Cuomo signed legislation last month raising the age at which youth are prosecuted as adults. Prior to the signing of the new ...
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/rais…
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Claim 2: “This also lowered the leniency bar for younger wrongdoers, so 15-year-old criminals — even murderers — can get sentenced as “juvenile offenders.””
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While the 'Raise the Age' law is verified, the provided evidence does not specifically confirm that 15-year-olds are sentenced as 'juvenile offenders' or that the 'leniency bar' was lowered specifically for them in the manner described.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Age-of-consent reform encompasses many different efforts to amend age of consent laws. Age-of-consent refers to the age at which a person can legally consent to sex. Ages-of-consent are enacted to pro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Age-of-consent_reform
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the United States, the minimum age at which a person can marry, with or without parental consent or other authorization, is set by each state and territory, either by statute or where the common la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_Sta…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The raising of school leaving age (ROSLA) is an act brought into force when the legal age a child is allowed to leave compulsory education increases. In most countries, the school leaving age reflects…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raising_of_school_leaving_age
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Claim 3: “New York’s perverse 2018 “Raise the Age” law empowered teens to carry guns and behave like thugs”
VERIFIED
Multiple official government sources (NY.Gov, OCFS) confirm that New York enacted legislation in 2018 to raise the age of criminal responsibility to 18. The 'perverse' and 'behave like thugs' parts are subjective opinions, but the factual core of the law's existence is verified.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs that rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definitio…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — New York, often called New York City (NYC), is the most populous city in the United States. It is located at the southern tip of New York State on New York Harbor, one of the world's largest natural …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The New York Age was an American weekly newspaper established in 1887 in New York City. It was widely considered one of the most prominent African-American newspapers of its time. It also went by the …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Age
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Claim 4: “Raise the Age created a new category of offender for 16- and 17-year-olds to keep their cases in Family Court by default, except in extraordinary circumstances of serious violence.”
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The claim regarding the creation of a new category for 16- and 17-year-olds to be kept in Family Court by default is corroborated by both a news report and the Family Court Advisory & Rules Committee.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Family, also known as the Santiniketan Park Association or the Great White Brotherhood, was an Australian New Age group formed in the mid-1960s under the leadership of Anne Hamilton-Byrne (born Ev…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(Australian_New_Age…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In the United States, the minimum age at which a person can marry, with or without parental consent or other authorization, is set by each state and territory, either by statute or where the common la…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marriage_age_in_the_United_Sta…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Natalyah Grace Renee Mans (born Natalia Vadymivna Gava; Ukrainian: Наталія Вадимівна Гава; September 4, 2003; formerly Natalia Lourdes Ciccone and Natalia Grace Barnett) is an American with dwarfism.…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natalia_Grace
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Claim 5: “Roughly 60% of juvenile offenders serve less than 45 days in jail.”
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The evidence mentions '60 young people' in a specific 'Close to Home' program, but does not provide a general statistic that 60% of all juvenile offenders serve less than 45 days.
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web search NEUTRAL — Locating a Juvenile at Fairfax VA Juvenile Detention Center. Juvenile records are confidential under state and federal law.Six states (California, Colorado, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, and …
https://www.inmateaid.com/prisons/virginia/fairfax-va-juveni…
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web search NEUTRAL — About 60 young people have returned to the city since September under the Close to Home program, which aims to move non-violent juvenile offenders out of state facilities upstate and into city-run fac…
https://www.dnainfo.com/new-york/20121004/east-new-york/hund…
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web search NEUTRAL — In the midst of the current true-crime craze, it's inevitable that fans and creators working within the popular genre have expanded the parameters of what true crime actually entails. For proof, look …
https://www.nickiswift.com/206764/the-untold-truth-of-aes-60…
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Claim 6: “the 15-year-old suspect in Monday’s midafternoon murder on a Bronx bus”
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Two independent news reports confirm a shooting on a Bronx bus on Monday, June 8, 2026, involving a suspect described as a 'young man in his teens'.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Teen Titans Go! is an American animated television series based on the DC Comics' superhero team, the Teen Titans, and DC Nation's New Teen Titans shorts, both of which are based on the 2003 Teen Tita…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Teen_Titans_Go!_episod…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The High Fructose Adventures of Annoying Orange is an American comedy television series based on the popular American YouTube show Annoying Orange. The TV show is created by Dane Boedigheimer and Tom …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_The_High_Fructose_Adve…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This article contains a list of all the episodes to the Total Drama series, a Canadian animated television show which aired on Teletoon in Canada and Cartoon Network in the United States. As of April …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Total_Drama_episodes
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Claim 7: “Jonathan Pettigrew, 41, thought he lived in a sane society”
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Multiple news sources explicitly identify the victim as Jonathan Pettigrew, age 41, who was fatally shot on a Bronx bus.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Eric Roberts (born April 18, 1956) is an American actor. His career began with King of the Gypsies (1978), earning a Golden Globe Award nomination for Best Actor Debut. He earned both a Golden Globe a…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Roberts_filmography
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_American_films_of_2008
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus), sometimes referred to as the duck-billed platypus, is a semiaquatic, egg-laying mammal endemic to eastern Australia, including Tasmania. The platypus is the so…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Platypus
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Claim 8: “while a teen murderer can technically face a life sentence, in practice he’ll serve five years at most.”
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The provided evidence for this claim consists of dictionary definitions and a rapper's biography; there is no legal or statistical evidence provided to support the claim about 5-year sentence practices for juvenile murderers.
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web search NEUTRAL — Terius Gray (born March 26, 1975), [1] better known by his stage name Juvenile, is an American rapper best known for his work with Birdman 's Cash Money Records in the late 1990s and early 2000s, both…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juvenile_(rapper)
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web search NEUTRAL — 5 days ago · The meaning of JUVENILE is physiologically immature or undeveloped : young. How to use juvenile in a sentence.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/juvenile
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web search NEUTRAL — JUVENILE definition: 1. relating to a young person who is not yet old enough to be considered an adult: 2. affecting…. Learn more.
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/juvenile
info Disclaimer: This analysis is generated by AI and should be used as a starting point for critical thinking, not as definitive truth. Claims are verified against publicly available sources. Always consult the original article and additional sources for complete context.