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."
(Excerpt) Read more at people.com ...
yea her hair would have went up immediately.
She is making the interview circuit on TV this morning but the called her Bi-racial and now People but their headline is Black Woman.
Always hoax unless proved otherwise
I’ll take “Things That Didn’t Happen for $200” Alex.
Meanwhile, everyone’s running around shooting fireworks at people...
There will be many false flags coming to build up public opinion against conservatives.
It only stands to reason that if one has to be 35 to become President, then we should require the same for someone to run a hoax.
I am going to call hoax right now and beat the rush.
And when this turns out to be BS the media will just move on. Marxist troublemakers
A textbook case of Smollett-syndrome.
Here we go again. Another pathetic loser harming themselves to get someone to pay attention to them. How sad.
Nikki Haley needs to Twitter about this quick!
lol...okay
Hey hey hey, it’s Fat Sharpton
I am wondering if she was at one of the protests in the area and not in her car as she said.
Has the hoax been exposed yet?
Sounds like she messed up throwing a Molotov cocktail and is blaming whitey. There won’t be any surveillance to back up her story. She was probably out rioting and committing arson.
She must still have the Zippo, since she says they threw a lit lighter at her. But mysteriously there won’t be one.
It had been a night of rioting, it says here:
https://heavy.com/news/2020/06/althea-bernstein/
So far, 100% of these cases are hoaxes.
Zippo would be the only lighter to fit this scenario. Last time I saw a cheap imitation Zippo...it was near $20. For an authentic Zippo? Isn’t it like $40 to $80 now?
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