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A black man is charged in racist graffiti incidents that shook Mich. campus, drew national attention
Washington Post ^ | October 24, 2017 | Fred Barbash and Susan Svrluga

Posted on 10/25/2017 6:25:37 PM PDT by grundle

Eastern Michigan student Mikea LaPierre holds a sign in protest of the racist graffiti in 2016.

Campus police noted that they had committed more than 1,080 hours to investigating the incidents, with the help of the FBI and the Michigan State Police, among others.

EMU President James Smith said in a statement to the campus community that the vandalism “created significant pain, fear and distress among our students, faculty and staff” and that he had felt angry about them as well.

The incidents prompted strong reactions throughout the community, both on and off campus. The faculty senate condemned them and held a day-long teach-in about racism and diversity, and some professors held a vigil at one of the vandalized buildings, wearing black to show support for students of color. Student leaders, Ypsilanti city officials and NAACP members held a candlelight vigil. More than 100 students marched to the university president’s house, demanding action. Last fall and in the spring, the otherwise quiet campus of Eastern Michigan University was hit by three ugly incidents of vandalism targeting blacks.

The first came in September, when “KKK” was sprayed in red, white and blue paint on the wall of a dormitory, along with a threat that used a racial slur and told blacks to “leave” the school in Ypsilanti, about 11 miles southeast of Ann Arbor.

Then, on Halloween, the same ominous hate message using the n-word and ordering blacks to leave showed up on another building, this one right next to the campus’s monument to the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

In the spring, a third racist message was left in a men’s restroom stall.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


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KEYWORDS: blackhoax; fakehatecrimes; graffiti; hatecrimes; hoax; kkk; racism
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Time and time and time again, whenever a hate crime on college campus receives national media attention, and the perpetrator is later discovered, it is almost always the case that the hate crime was fake.

Also, the social justice warriors usually end their protest whenever it turns out that the hate crime that they had been protesting against turns out be fake.

1 posted on 10/25/2017 6:25:37 PM PDT by grundle
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To: grundle

Those things happen?


2 posted on 10/25/2017 6:27:07 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: grundle

3 posted on 10/25/2017 6:28:35 PM PDT by RC one (The 2nd Amendment is a doomsday provision, one designed for those exceptionally rare circumstances)
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To: grundle

The headline writer will probably get fired.


4 posted on 10/25/2017 6:30:55 PM PDT by Ken H (Best election ever!)
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To: grundle

Question — what does it say about these radical activist types, that they feel the need to “stir the pot”, the need to create fictional incidents of alleged hatred and racism, to allegedly prove how bigoted and racist our country is?????

Question — what does it say about allegedly racist bigoted conservative types, who are NOT perpetrating these incidents which the radical activists blame them for????


5 posted on 10/25/2017 6:31:06 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: grundle

EMU’s chief of police, Robert Heighes, did not offer any motive for the vandalism, except to say that “it was not driven by politics, and it was not driven by race. It was an individual item done by one individual,” Heighes told the campus newspaper, the Eastern Echo.

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A regular Inspector Clouseau


6 posted on 10/25/2017 6:40:44 PM PDT by Flick Lives
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To: grundle

The phony “outrage” crowd is well rehearsed.


7 posted on 10/25/2017 6:41:13 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner
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Official comment by the President of the university: “Nevermind”.


8 posted on 10/25/2017 6:45:49 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: All
Click the Pics & Text


9 posted on 10/25/2017 6:46:51 PM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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To: grundle

Someone is keeping track of these:

http://fakehatecrimes.org/


10 posted on 10/25/2017 6:50:37 PM PDT by Right Wing Assault (Kill: NFL, Hollywood, NBA, BLM, CAIR, Antifa, SPLC, CNN, ESPN, NPR, TWITTER, FACEBOOK)
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To: grundle

Every liberal is a lying violent totalitarian thug.


11 posted on 10/25/2017 6:50:41 PM PDT by stinkerpot65 (Global warming is a Marxist lie.)
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“And, in other news: The sun sets in the west and the Pope is Catholic.”


12 posted on 10/25/2017 7:01:26 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: Flick Lives
A regular Inspector Clouseau CLUELESS.

Fixed.

13 posted on 10/25/2017 7:03:52 PM PDT by lightman (ANTIFA is full of Bolshevik.)
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To: grundle

White people don’t do racial slurs anymore. PC has shut that door.


14 posted on 10/25/2017 7:12:59 PM PDT by lurk
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Well....the sun still sets in the west..........


15 posted on 10/25/2017 7:13:42 PM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizen Means Born Here Of Citizen Parents - Know Islam, No Peace -No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: grundle

The Left IS a fake hate crime.


16 posted on 10/25/2017 7:13:59 PM PDT by The Toll
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To: grundle

Falls into the most common pattern.


17 posted on 10/25/2017 7:15:00 PM PDT by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: grundle

Who woulda thunk it?

18 posted on 10/25/2017 7:15:29 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: Dilbert San Diego

The grievance industry is one big scam and they cultivate the idiots of society to do their bidding. These are the type of sheep that propelled Obama to power and make idiots think half the country is queer.


19 posted on 10/25/2017 7:15:35 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: grundle

It is ever thus.


20 posted on 10/25/2017 7:53:06 PM PDT by arthurus
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