The Courageous Conservatives PAC, which supports Ted Cruz, released a new campaign ad on Monday criticizing Donald Trump’s (actually hilarious) endorsement of Bill de Blasio for New York City mayor. When the scary voice-over mentions the mayor siding with “P.C. liberals to let the homeless run wild on city streets,” it shows an image of an elderly black man speaking into a megaphone. However, this photograph is from a demonstration against the de Blasio administration’s homelessness policies—specifically, the aggressive deployment of the NYPD in East Harlem to harry and harass the homeless people who live there.

The protest, organized by activist group Picture the Homeless, took place on September 9, 2015, on 125th Street. Here is the image in question, from the campaign ad:

And here is a photograph, provided by Picture the Homeless, that shows the sign being held up behind the man in the foreground:

“We were PROTESTING de Blasio,” Sam Miller, a spokesman for PTH, wrote to Gawker in an email. “He wasn’t standing with us!”

The American people surely deserve greater attention to detail from their next president than this.

Contact the author of this post: brendan.oconnor@gawker.com.