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Another 'Racial Attack' Ruled a Hoax in College Town
American Thinker ^ | May 18, 2016 | David Paulin

Posted on 05/18/2016 5:36:56 AM PDT by detective

The laid back and trendy college town of Iowa City was plunged into turmoil a little over two weeks ago, after a black University of Iowa freshman claimed that three white men had viciously attacked him in the downtown and called him a racial slur. A media firestorm ensued, with the first report airing on a Chicago news station. Iowa City police quickly declared they were investigating a possible hate crime and even consulted with the FBI. City and university officials were on the defensive. Social justice warriors held protests.

The hate crime, however, turned out to be a hoax – just as more than a few observers had suspected all along.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; Government; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: fakehatecrimes; hatecrime; hoax
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The media gives enormous publicity to alleged hate crimes and racial assaults.

When they turn out to be false the media is silent.

1 posted on 05/18/2016 5:36:56 AM PDT by detective
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And the hoaxer is never charged with filing a false police report or expelled from school.

He will use the “I was just trying to raise awareness” excuse.


2 posted on 05/18/2016 5:38:44 AM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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I love how people chide the liars saying that they have made it harder for “real” victims.

Like what real victims? If these fake ones get this much publicity, then how come we don’t hear about these supposed real “hate crimes”?


3 posted on 05/18/2016 5:39:22 AM PDT by VanDeKoik
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To: detective

Anybody who does that needs to pay the same penalty that a normal person would have paid under the false accusation. No exceptions. No black privilege.

White lives have been ruined, but certain people enjoy freedom from prosecution, due to their protective pigmentation.


4 posted on 05/18/2016 5:42:46 AM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: VanDeKoik

Wonder what the REAL percentage of black on white hate crimes is to white on black hate crimes?????


5 posted on 05/18/2016 5:42:53 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JBW1949

If you have to ask.....


6 posted on 05/18/2016 5:44:03 AM PDT by ealgeone
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Basically, it was rhetorical.....


7 posted on 05/18/2016 5:47:27 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JBW1949

Aren’t they all frauds? What a pathetic joke on the community. These haters should be arrested for hate crimes.


8 posted on 05/18/2016 5:55:03 AM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?.)
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Of course they should...If you or I filed a false police report, we’d be arrested and fined at the least...So should they...

They proclaim they want “equality”...Let’s give ‘em equality...Throw their a$$e$ in jail for the false reports....


9 posted on 05/18/2016 5:59:26 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: detective

” Marcus was an active participant and even an instigator in three separate physical confrontations or assaults that occurred at bar close. During at least one of those, he suffered injuries. That is unfortunate, but when you go looking for multiple fights, that is going to happen.” Police said the incident involved an “ongoing disagreement.””


10 posted on 05/18/2016 6:02:57 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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Like what real victims?

Well, like this one perhaps.

Man executed for dragging death of James Byrd

11 posted on 05/18/2016 6:05:26 AM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (#BlackOlivesMatter)
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from the article:

>>>So why did Owens make up the hate crime story? According to one account, he was afraid to tell his parents he was injured during multiple drunken fights he had provoked. A race hoax story, he figured, would be easier for them to swallow.<<<


12 posted on 05/18/2016 6:05:38 AM PDT by heterosupremacist ("Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." Thomas Jefferson)
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To: JBW1949

Remember the ‘Knockout Game’?...........................How many non-white victims were there?....................


13 posted on 05/18/2016 6:17:36 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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In my lifetime I have known two different guys that were great as long as they were sober, but get a little alcohol in them and they suddenly became 10 foot tall and bullet-proof and wanted to fight any body in the bar.............................and usually lost..............


14 posted on 05/18/2016 6:19:50 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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I’ve only seen one...and that was last week....


15 posted on 05/18/2016 6:20:48 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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Must have been a case of “Stolen Pallor”........................


16 posted on 05/18/2016 6:24:42 AM PDT by Red Badger (WE DON'T NEED NO STEENKING TAGLINES!...........................)
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To: detective

17 posted on 05/18/2016 6:27:37 AM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: JBW1949

Yup fair is fair.


18 posted on 05/18/2016 6:33:41 AM PDT by the_individual2014
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To: detective

The minute I saw this on the news I knew it was a lie. It was actually embarrassing watching the news readers go ga-ga over it. How much longer will they play the willing fool to these liars? It’s getting ridiculous. Even now, colleges are sending groups of students to Ferguson on “study trips” to “understand” the climate there and the racism the poor citizens have to deal with. Ugh - it was all a lie and the liars are still cashing in.


19 posted on 05/18/2016 6:34:31 AM PDT by PLK
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A old black guy was standing on a street corner and a black teenager came from behind and hit him in the back of the head, knocking him into the street...

I guess there weren’t any white people in the hood and the kid was afraid to go out of the hood....


20 posted on 05/18/2016 6:37:32 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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