Widely circulated social media posts falsely claim that Mexican police officers were brutally beaten by a caravan of migrants making its way through Central America.

"Mexican police are being brutalized by members of this caravan as they attempt to FORCE their way into Mexico - And WE are supposed to believe these are just poor, helpless refugees seeking asylum??? I am 100% behind POTUS deploying our military!" read one post on Twitter accompanied by an image of a bloodied Mexican officer.

A Facebook post on the pro-Trump "Make America Great Again" group page similarly claimed that the image and others came from recent interactions between Mexican police and migrants headed toward the U.S.

But the posts are wrong. A reverse search shows the images are in fact from a 2012 interaction between police officers and students in Mexico, not any recent altercation with the migrant caravan.

Both posts garnered roughly 10,000 shares, but the latter has been removed from Facebook.

Tons of misinformation about the caravan floating around. This photo of a bloodied police officer has tens of thousands of shares on a few big FB pages. It was taken in 2012, and has nothing to do with the caravan. pic.twitter.com/CPxPBygbRv — Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) October 22, 2018

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