A photograph of a person with a bruised face that was shared across multiple Facebook groups in June 2020 claiming violence at Black Lives Matter protests turned out to be an old photograph of Anastasia Yankova taken after one of her MMA fights in 2016.
According to AFP Australia, the Facebook posts, which showed a cropped version of Yankova’s face, claimed that the person was “beaten and raped” at a Black Lives Matters protest.
The post reads: “The other night at the BLM protest I was beaten and raped by three POC. I didn’t call the police or report it.