Posted on 03/08/2017 1:57:40 PM PST by leftcoaster
NN ARBOR, MI -- A 21-year-old Ann Arbor woman pleaded guilty as charged to one count of false report of a misdemeanor in 15th District Court on Monday, March 6.
Halley Bass admitted in court that she fabricated a story about a strange man scratching her face in downtown Ann Arbor on Nov. 15.
"I was suffering from depression at the time," Bass told Judge Elizabeth Pollard Hines. "I made a superficial scratch on my face. It was visible and I was embarrassed about what I'd done. So I made up a story and told a friend that a stranger had done it while I was walking. I was encouraged to report it to the police. I made the mistake of doing that."
At the time, Bass claimed her attack was part of the surge in hate crimes following the election of Donald Trump a week earlier. She told police she was targeted for wearing a solidarity pin connected to Great Britain's "Brexit" vote.
Bass admitted to scratching her own face with the pin after becoming upset during a Woman's Literature class at the University of Michigan, according to the Ann Arbor Police Department report.
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Bass originally told police that she got out of class at Angell Hall around 1 p.m. and walked to the Starbuck's on the corner of East Liberty Street and South State Street, but left because it was too crowded, according to the report.
Bass said she then went to the Michigan Theater down Liberty to see what movies were playing and that while she was passing by "Graffiti Alley" a short time later a man attacked her, slashing her face with what she believed was a safety pin, the report said.
Bass told police the attack was likely prompted by the Brexit pin.
"(The) person must have seen the pin and picked on me," Bass said, according to the report. "That's my best guess. No other reason why he would be targeting me."
Police asked Bass if something like that ever happened to her before.
"I've heard of other people experiencing incidents recently, but not to me," she said.
The police noted several scratches on her face.
Bass described the suspect as an approximately 45-year-old white male, with stubble on his face, wearing a black baseball hat pulled low over his face, a gray hoodie with the hood down and sweat pants.
She has now admitted to making up the suspect.
Bass posted about the attack on Facebook the same day she reported the attack to the police, according to the report.
Bass later told detectives she wrote the post to convey "that all people are equal and deserve to have their voice heard and not feel endangered."
Detective pointed out her post had a dozen shares and more than 100 likes.
"It blew up a little bit more than I meant to," she said about the post.
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Bass eventually confessed that she had cut her own face after getting out of her Woman's Literature class.
"I had been in a discussion in my women's lit weirdly and there were a few people in my class that sort of said some things that scared me," she said. "...It was more like I wanted a concrete reason to be scared then to just talk, I guess."
The Washtenaw County Prosecutor's Office authorized the misdemeanor against Bass on Jan. 30, records show.
She faces up to 93 days in jail and/or a $500 fine.
“I had been in a discussion in my women’s lit weirdly and there were a few people in my class that sort of said some things that scared me,” she said. “...It was more like I wanted a concrete reason to be scared then to just talk, I guess.”
Whack doodle
There’s a lot of these #fakehatecrimes going around. The snowflakes are trying to find some sympathy for their idiocy.
Jail to the snowflakes melting. Jail, jail.
http://www.politico.com/2016-election/results/map/president
HOORAY Michigan! Hail to the victors.
“She faces up to 93 days in jail and/or a $500 fine.”
It should be 4-year felony. Set the precedent.
these people are going out and trying to ruin peoples lives,and should be held much more accountable. Like you said 4 years minimum
The crime is that Women’s Studies can pass for an education worth paying for.
In addition to being a criminal she appears to be just plain stupid. What she said about her women’s lit class made no sense.
Why are so many stupid people in college?
Bass eventually confessed that she had cut her own face after getting out of her Woman’s Literature class.
“I had been in a discussion in my women’s lit weirdly and there were a few people in my class that sort of said some things that scared me,” she said. “...It was more like I wanted a concrete reason to be scared then to just talk, I guess.”
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What does it mean? Don’t you have to be able to speak English as a prerequisite to taking Women’s Literature? Or was this a Women’s Word Salad Literature class she was taking?
Imaginary victims are the foundation of the democrat party.
Its why the rats can never be satisfied. Social justice is an eternal jihad, a means, and not an ends.
Oops. Not an end.
I think the punishment should be the same as the crime accused.
If a woman accuses another of a false battery, she should get the punishment of the false accusation.
If she knowingly planned a false accusation for rape, she should get the punishment that the rape charge would have gotten the person accused.
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