and now what she called 'Classic Wisconsin Frat Boys' has now turned into "White Nationalists".
Posted on 06/26/2020 9:03:13 PM PDT by aquila48
Authorities in Wisconsin are investigating a possible hate crime after an 18-year-old Black woman was set on fire.
On Wednesday morning, Althea Bernstein was driving through downtown Madison when she stopped at a red light. Bernstein was sitting at the intersection with her window down when she heard someone yell a racial slur, she told police, CBS News reports.
Moments later, she told police four white men appeared, with one spraying a liquid on her face and neck and throwing a flaming lighter at her. Bernstein told police she was able to drive away and put out the flames, but when she returned home, her mother encouraged her to go to the hospital, where she was treated for burns.
According to hospital staff, the liquid thrown on Bernstein is believed to be lighter fluid.
The following day, Madison Mayor Satya Rhodes-Conway released a statement calling the attack a hate crime.
"The City received a report of a violent racially-motivated hate crime that occurred downtown around 1:00 am on June 24, where a group of pedestrians used a racial slur and then lit a woman on fire through her car window as she stopped at an intersection. This is a horrifying and absolutely unacceptable crime that I will not tolerate in Madison," Rhodes-Conway said.
"While we are still learning more about the details, current information suggests this may have been a premeditated crime targeted toward people of color, which makes the incident even more disturbing."
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Hoax...
A Zippo lighter would stay lit for the toss. You see it in the movies all the time but I have not seen one for sale in years. More to the point, where is the lighter now? Did the attackers reach into the car and retrieve it? This is a BS fake claim.
It just sounds Jussie-like.
Hoax...
If she had been doused with lighter fluid she wouldn’t have bee able to simply slap it out.
She took the Zippo apart, wiped some fluid on her face and may or may not have set it afire.
A little residue.
and
How would anyone know she is Black. She could pass either way.
Guess se can expect a lot more Smolletin’ to happen.
Throwing the BS flag...
And, like magic, no one matching that description will be caught on the street surveillance cameras.
Based on recent history, color me extremely skeptical.
“her crack pipe prolly blowed up”
My first thought when I read the headline.
” How does the lighter stay lit after it leaves the hand of the dude?”
It happens in the movies from which her mind conjured it.
And if someone throws a lighter in a car shouldn’t the lighter still be there?
Madison?????? you couldn’t find a racist in the entire county. He$$, you couldn’t find a real man/woman in that entire city. Those people sing “If you’re going to San Fransisco” as their theme song.
Funny how polar bear hunting is never a hoax. The cameras always catch those.
hey that makes sense.
Unless one really stopped to look at her, she could pass for white or mixed.
Are racists now so lazy they don’t even look for real black targets?
The answer is it’s a hoax
MSM reports this knowing its not true, just because it serves up ratings and fits their narrative.
This is what happens when you drink flaming shots and then need a cover story!
So, was the lighter fluid sprayed or thrown? In one statement she says it was sprayed from a bottle, and another one she says it was thrown at her. And if this happened, there would be a lighter as evidence. Where is that later?
the media just move from one hoax after another, with no pause for reflection on all of their failed hoaxes, even the recent ones.
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