After Robert Francis Prevost became Pope Leo XIV and the first pontiff from the United States, an image spread across social media that claimed to show a New York Times headline saying he helped establish an autonomous zone for demonstrators protesting police brutality in 2020 in Seattle,

The election of Cardinal Robert Prevost​, who will now forever be known as Pope Leo XIV​ and the first American pope​,​ stirred many emotions on Thursday afternoon in New York City.

Robert Francis Prevost, who on Thursday became the first American elected Pope, has Creole of color roots in New Orleans, according to a genealogist.