A fake article that claimed a video showing the brutal beating of a homeless man at a gas station in the Olney section of Philadelphia last year was actually a homeless veteran being beaten to death by anti-Trump protesters has been taken down by the Christian Times website.



The article used a different victim's name and said the man died early Saturday after being beaten by people protesting Donald Trump's election. It claimed the protesters were trying to set an American flag on fire when the victim yelled at them to stop.



The video shown with the story, however, was actually that of the brutal beating of Robert Barnes — who was not a veteran and who was not beaten by anti-Trump protesters.



Barnes was attacked outside the Sunoco gas station on 5th Street near Somerville Avenue at about 6:40 p.m. April 7, 2015, allegedly by three women and three juveniles. The assault landed him in a coma.



Barnes, 51, died seven months later, on Nov. 25, at Abington Hospital-Jefferson Health.



Diane Barnes, of Plymouth Meeting, one of Barnes' sisters, said Tuesday that she learned of the fake story Sunday when it was posted on her Facebook page by a friend.