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Hoax Hate Crimes

February 2012, Montclair State U.

Two black roommates are arrested on charges of false reporting, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct a week after they told authorities someone slipped a racist, sexist message under their door. They wrote it.
February 2012, U. of Wisconsin-Parkside
A black student confesses to writing racial threats that included a hit list of students. The notes prompted heightened security and several campus meetings.
July 2012, Central Connecticut State U.

Student Alexandra Pennell receives hate letters for being a lesbian. Authorities investigating the case find the student sent the letters to herself.
April 2011, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Student Quinn Matney files a false police report saying he was branded with hot metal because he was gay; officials later find he made up the story.
March 2011, U. of Virginia

Student Johnathan Perkins makes up a story about police harassment in the form of racial profiling.
November 2007, George Washington U.
A hidden camera catches student Sarah Marshak drawing swastikas on her dorm room door after she reported multiple incidents of the vandalism. Marshak maintained she only drew the last few in a series of swastikas, to highlight the university’s inaction.
April 2005, Trinity International U.

An unidentified student posts threatening notes to minority students so her parents would let her leave the university.