Posted on 04/19/2016 8:15:55 AM PDT by markomalley
A recent black Kean University graduate faces up to 90 days in jail and $82,000 in restitution for creating a false public alarm by using a fake Twitter account to threaten black students.
Kayla McKelvey, 25, pleaded guilty to the charge Monday in a Union County court after a judge previously rejected a plea deal that would have allowed her to avoid jail time and eventually erase the charge from her record, NJ.com reports.
The new arrangement comes with a recommended 90-day jail sentence and an $82,000 bill to cover the increased campus security and investigation into several messages posted to Twitter on Nov. 17, 2015 that threatened to kill black students on campus.
McKelvey, a “self-proclaimed activist,” was participating in a race rally when she left the event and went to the university library, where she created an anonymous Twitter account to send messages like “@kupolice I will kill all the blacks tonight, tomorrow and any other day they go to Kean University,” prosecutors said.
Other messages, posted by “@keanuagainstblk” included “I will kill every black male and female at kean university,” “i will shoot every black woman and male I see at kean university #keanuniversity,” and “i will shoot every black person i see at kean university,” the Daily Mail reports.
McKelvey returned to the rally after posting the messages and attempted to work her classmates into a frenzy over the threats, CBS News reports.
Last Thursday, Judge William Daniel pointed out that McKelvey admitted to sending the messages, quoting her statement to police that “I went about it the wrong way,” and rejected a plea deal that would have awarded McKelvey a “pretrial intervention.” The intervention is a probation program that allows participants to expunge the charge if completed successfully.
The prosecutor’s office previously offered McKlevey a plea deal of six months in jail, Philly.com reports.
During that hearing, McKlevey’s attorney argued that she’s remorseful for her action, and pointed out that she lost her job and her friends. She was the president of the Pan African Student Union and the school’s 2014 homecoming queen, according to the Daily Mail.
Neither McKlevey nor her attorney have spoken with the media, but Kean University issued a public statement about her guilty plea Monday.
“The University thanks the Union County Prosecutor’s Office and the Kean Police Department for helping to put this sad incident behind us, and allowing the University to focus its efforts and its energy where it belongs: on the success of our students,” the statement read.
McKelvey is scheduled to be officially sentenced on June 17, NJ.com reports.
Commenters online showed very little sympathy for the former student’s self-created situation.
“Ha ha! 90 days in jail and $82,000 in restitution,” commenter “tellin it like it is” posted. “I hope that is a bitter pill for her to swallow.”
“ugh, every picture of her is smug and without remorse, she will be in the news again I’m sure,” corruptdna wrote.
“90 days in the clink?” NB posted. “That’s it? Something something privilege.”
“Does the sentence include an apology to us ‘rightwing hatemongers’ who were immediately blamed?” Ralph Evans questioned. “Didn’t think so.”
Obama’s son strikes again.
Their Greivance Mongering Machine MUST EAT.
It must be fed.
And they alll know that without these orchestrations, there would be no fireworks.
And THEN they wouldn’t have any EXCUSE for their miserable, loser lives.
So they pull stuff LIKE THIS, and make sure it happens.
Looks like a man in drag.
Anyone else notice there seem to be numerous incidents which threaten minorities or “LGBT” peoples??
But then it turns out that these events are hoaxes, perpetrated by members of the allegedly oppressed minority groups? And they do it, to gain sympathy?? Why do they do it? To show how bigoted our country is???
What does it say about conservatives, who allegedly are so racist and bigoted, that they aren’t really perpetrating these events??
And what does it say about the liberal activist types, who actually do perpetrate these events, who feel some need to invent bigoted incidents where none are actually happening???
Fake Hate Crimes Database has many others listed, but not this one, yet:
She got the deer in the headlights, didn’t do nuthin look.
Her poor mirror must be riddled with bullet holes...
Yes it does.
My error.
It is listed as Report #214.
Every. Damn. Time. Like clockwork.
Has any of these hoaxers ever been really punished?
I wonder if there has actually been a real, racially motivated incident in say the last ten years?
The entirety of the Left is a fake hatecrime.
Surprise Surprise
It was bad enough that these nitwits weren’t getting an education - stupid in stupid out, but now they are being taught to hate Whitey and lie about their “oppression.”
These kinds of attacks are always hoaxes nowadays.
The hoaxer knows that in today’s world any act of overt racism is immediately condemned and the collective weight of the entire grievance industry, including the government and the press, comes down on the act and the unknown perp.
And that is exactly why the hoaxers do it - they know it will get immediate and widespread attention and fire up the grievance industry.
And that is exactly why real instances of overt racism are exceedingly and increasingly rare - why feed the monster?
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