RACIST THREATS AND ATTACKS THAT RATTLED A CALIFORNIA UNIVERSITY CAMPUS WERE FAKED, POLICE SAY

Newsweek ^ | April 13, 2020 | Andy Ngo

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Every single one in this photo will get what is coming to them," read the ominous Instagram message sent to several students of color at the University of La Verne, east of Los Angeles, in March 2019. The accompanying black-and-white photo was of a group of outspoken students who were well-known on campus for organizing anti-racism protests. Seen in the photo: Anayeli Dominguez Peña, a Mexican-American graduate student and vocal social-justice campaigner. She had been instrumental in organizing numerous protests in the Decolonize ULV group she co-led.

"That wet back bitch Anayeli and that n---r Jasmine need to SHUT THEIR DIRTY F---ING MOUTHS. WE KNOW WHERE THEY LIVE AND WHAT CARS THEY DRIVE," the threat continued. (Newsweek has redacted the explicit slurs that were spelled out in the messages.) "If one of them DIRTY BITCHES get it after night classes you know why. This ain't no f---ing colored AMERICA."

News of the racist threat quickly spread through social media, stoking fear on the campus of over 8,600 students.

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The following morning, Dominguez Peña, who was living in campus housing and named in the threat, found her parked car emitting smoke. Someone had tried to start a fire with a backpack inside the vehicle. The university cancelled all remaining classes that day and the La Verne Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation stepped in to investigate.

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All the cases remained unsolved—until March 9, 2020. After nearly a year of investigations involving multiple agencies, the LVPD said at a press conference that Dominguez Peña, 25, had faked the threats against herself and others in ten total separate "incidents." The same day, she was arrested on felony charges of making criminal threats and perjury, as well as seven misdemeanors related to electronic impersonation and filing false police reports.

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One study found that 2/3 were entirely fake.

A political scientist found that fewer than 1 in 3 of 346 such allegations was genuine.
Hate Crime Hoaxes Are More Common Than You Think
https://www.wsj.com/articles/hate-crime-hoaxes-are-more-common-than-you-think-11561503352

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http://www.fakehatecrimes.org/
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