There's been a lot of tension between police officers and civilians lately, and it's causing a wave of anger on social media.

That anger is captured in an internet meme making the rounds on social media. One image circulating the interview pairs two images, several flag-draped coffins and the other is a still from surveillance footage showing Michael Brown allegedly assaulting an employee at a convenience store. Brown was later killed by Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson.

The meme also adds the text, claiming:

    "Want to know where racial tension and cultural divide comes from? 794 law enforcement officers have fallen in the line of duty since B.H. Obama took office, with no special recognition from the White House. A man robs a convenience store and assaults a cop; the White House sends three representatives to his memorial service."

PolitiFact rated the claim for its truthfulness. Writer Joshua Gillin said the meme rates PANTS ON FIRE. Gillin said a little research proves the crux of claim to be false.

“The part that we’re really having a problem with here is when they say that the president hasn’t recognized officers that were killed in the line of duty," Gillin said. "That is certainly not the case. Just a quick look will find several different speeches and proclamations have included tributes to these fallen officers.”

There are at least six instances in which the president honored the lives of fallen officers in writing or in speeches, all found on the White House's archives.

The meme does provide one true claim, however. The White House did send three representatives to the service for Brown: Broderick Johnson, chairman of the My Brother's Keeper Task Force; Marlon Marshall, deputy director of the White House Office of Public Engagement; and Heather Foster, an adviser in the public engagement office.

The other part of the claim deals with how many law enforcement officers have been killed in the line of duty since Obama was inaugurated. The meme claims the 794 figure comes from the Officer Down memorial Page, a privately run website. Between 2009 and early December, 2014, the site counted more than 830 deaths.

The FBI has its own count, known as the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted database. The FBI figures are closer to 521 deaths from 2009 to 2013. That's a lower number than what's cited in the meme. But each group has its own criteria for the statistics.

Because special recognition is documented by Obama in speeches and proclamations, PolitiFact rated the claim PANTS ON FIRE.

SOURCES: MEME CLAIMS NO 'SPECIAL RECOGNITION' FOR OFFICERS KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY