Posted on 05/04/2016 2:24:35 PM PDT by digger48
Three New York college students pleaded not guilty Wednesday to claiming to be targets of a racially motivated attack when, prosecutors say, they actually had assaulted another bus passenger.
Ariel Agudio, Asha Burwell and Alexis Briggs, all 20, entered the pleas at an arraignment in Albany County Court on charges of third-degree assault and multiple counts of falsely reporting an incident...
A grand jury on Monday indicted the three women on the assault and false report charges. Agudio and Burwell also pleaded not guilty to charges of harassment, while Agudio pleaded not guilty to three additional counts of attempted assault.
The State University of New York at Albany rallied behind the students, who are black, when they came forward with claims that a group of white men and women attacked them on January 30 in a confrontation on a city bus. Students held a rally and university President Robert J. Jones said in a letter to students and faculty that he was "deeply concerned, saddened and angry about this incident." Others came to their defense on social media using the hashtag #DefendBlackGirlsUAlbany.
The People of Color Caucus issued a letter in support of them. But university police said an investigation revealed that no one used racial epithets against the women. Instead, they assaulted another passenger and falsely reported the incident, authorities said. "What happened on the bus was not a 'hate crime,'" University Police Chief Frank Wiley said in February. "The only person we heard uttering racial epithets was one of the defendants."
A tentative trial date was scheduled for September, the district attorney's office said. The three women pleaded not guilty in February to charges of assault and harassment. Two of them also pleaded not guilty to charges of falsely reporting the incident.
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Gloom, despair, and agony on me.
Deep darkie ‘pression, excessive racery.
If it ain’t for hoaxes,
We got no hate at all,
Gloom, despair, and pass the EBT.
Don’t believe it. It will take video to convince me.
: )
And when they join islam, they become real sand fleas.
YES. 13% of the population in the US is black.
HOWEVER, it isn't 13% causing havoc in the inner cities.
When you whittle it down, it's likely a *smaller* in fact very small subset of blacks that cause ALL of the problems.
Mainly young black males.
Who kill other young black males.
Therein lies the problem.
Why does such a small portion of black men get a "pass" when they are the ones causing 99% of problems?
Hint: it AIN'T racism.
Something completely f'd up in their culture.
If we could somehow rid society of this small amount of horrible thugs and gang-bangers, Chicago would likely be a decent place to live.
Instead we have a weekly body count of black on black violence.
Conveniently ignored by the MSM.
Only cop on black thug violence counts for some reason.
Look at Baltimore.
Yeesh, the cops on trial for Freddie Gray are almost all black.
But 100% democrats.
For some other completely unrelated news... Gun ownership and consealed carry permit application rates continue to climb...
I think most experts would concur that Baraq Obama is the #1 gun salesman in US history.
It should be a series crime to falsely report a hate crime. They are victims to this activity.
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