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MN teen falsely accused of sending classmate racist messages: 'I felt unsafe in my community'
FoxNews.com ^ | 4/16/2021 | By Fox News Staff | Fox News

Posted on 04/16/2021 8:07:54 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo

Minnesota high school student Avery Severson said on Friday that she was unsure what her future would hold after being falsely accused of sending racist messages to a Black classmate.

"I was just shocked when I saw that they were accusing me and I felt unsafe. I felt unsafe at school," Severson, a sophomore at White Bear Lake High School near St. Paul, told "Fox & Friends."

Severson was accused by a Black classmate of sending racist direct messages on Instagram.

"Screenshots from an alleged conversation between Precious Boahen, who accused Severson of racism, and an account called "GoWhiteBear," show the anonymous account using racial slurs. It’s unclear who was ultimately behind the anonymous account," according to the Daily Wire.

The so-called racist messages were discovered to be a "hoax" after White Bear Lake High School, the FBI, and the local police department investigated the situation. The district’s superintendent sent an email concluding that the Instagram messages were indeed a "hoax."

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TOPICS: Conspiracy; Education; Local News
KEYWORDS: blm; fakehatecrimes; hoax; minnesota; racism; whitebearlake
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This is a follow up on a thread I posted a few days ago.

Local media has completely gone silent on this story.

Gee, I wonder why...

1 posted on 04/16/2021 8:07:54 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo
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Previous thread...

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2 posted on 04/16/2021 8:08:28 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tagline Under Review)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The fbi!?

They’ve sunk below the level of “hall monitors” now.

3 posted on 04/16/2021 8:11:19 AM PDT by NativeSon ( )
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
after White Bear Lake High School, the FBI, and the local police department investigated the situation.

The FBI is now investigating high school bullying allegations. Really?

WTF is wrong with America?

4 posted on 04/16/2021 8:15:59 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: NativeSon

The fbi!? They’ve sunk below the level of “hall monitors” now.


The send 14 agents to investigate a rope on a garage door and now they investigate high school Instagram messages? What possible federal law is broken by sending a ‘racist’ message? I was under the impression that the First Amendment protected both speech and the ‘press’.


5 posted on 04/16/2021 8:17:03 AM PDT by hanamizu
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

The article doesn’t say if there would be any consequences for the hoaxer.


6 posted on 04/16/2021 8:18:52 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: PGR88
The FBI is now investigating high school bullying allegations. Really?

They were deeply disappointed that they didn't find an example of the epidemic white supremacist racism here.

However, they will keep looking.

They'll find some, eventually!

7 posted on 04/16/2021 8:20:24 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Gee, now that they know it was a Smollett-incident - you think they will expel the “hoaxer”?


8 posted on 04/16/2021 8:22:55 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The individual who created the social media posts poses no threat to our students of color," the email reads.

No, just a threat to white people.

9 posted on 04/16/2021 8:24:36 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: Fido969

If they do, the local media will bury it.


10 posted on 04/16/2021 8:25:18 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (Tagline Under Review)
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To: rightwingintelligentsia
The article doesn’t say if there would be any consequences for the hoaxer.

We all know there won’t be. 👎

11 posted on 04/16/2021 8:25:23 AM PDT by Mark17 (US Air Force, retired. It was a long 20 years. )
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Don’t want to be sued for slander. Sandman put the fear of G-d into them.

As an aside, why is “black” now in caps? It’s a color, not a nationality. “African American” might be in caps, because it is explicitly nationalistic, but it’s awkward to use constantly. Too many syllables, pompous sounding, too. But if “black” is now in caps, shouldn’t “white” be, too? Since there are now gender identities, will “boy,” “girl,” “tranny” and “gay” soon be in caps? I’m just lazy, and prefer not to depress the shift key for frivolous reasons connected with wokeness. I do hope the Chicago Manual of Style’s latest edition hasn’t brought about this change. Has it? I don’t own a copy, so would like to know. If it did, we are on a slippery slope. Soon “cat” and “dog” will be in caps, too.


12 posted on 04/16/2021 8:25:26 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

I believe it was Chris Rock who said when he’s at the ATM he isn’t worried about the media sneaking up behind him.


13 posted on 04/16/2021 8:25:53 AM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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The rumors of the threatening messages even prompted a walkout by students in protest, supported by some of the school's teachers,

Fire those teachers.

14 posted on 04/16/2021 8:26:04 AM PDT by Fido969 ( Sc)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

Why are people still using social media?


15 posted on 04/16/2021 8:29:10 AM PDT by outpostinmass2 (Y)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

First they federalized “hate” crimes. Now, we see that the fbi investigates them. This will keep the fbi from investigating bearded savages who blow up buildings and other real crimes.


16 posted on 04/16/2021 8:31:20 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Voltaire: To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize.)
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To: NativeSon

Don’t any students ever settle their differences after school in the playground? Bad enough bringing guns and knives into such beefs. Now they got the G-Men involved? I guess they’ve temporarily run out of ways to smear deplorables and Trump their overlord, so this is busy work. Didn’t Hoover have them doing double duty to discover who’s Yehudi? I couldn’t resist.


17 posted on 04/16/2021 8:32:30 AM PDT by Eleutheria5 ("The impossible happens all the time. You just have to believe." Will Robinson)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

oh yeah... I am white and went to an 80% black high school... one of my classmates was murdered in a gang hit literally in the back lot of the school... numerous others killed during my time there. The anti-white hate at the school was acute though I dodged most of it because I was a good football player)... nobody asked if I felt unsafe.

My view of these savages has never changed since my experience on the eastside.


18 posted on 04/16/2021 8:32:54 AM PDT by Levy78
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To: PGR88

She could have been murdered.
Smarten up.


19 posted on 04/16/2021 8:35:06 AM PDT by Az Joe (I CONDEMN WOKE SUPREMACY! )
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To: Fido969

https://www.dailywire.com/news/hate-crime-hoax-high-school-students-of-color-were-sent-threatening-messages-the-superintendent-says-it-was-a-hoax

Per the above, they know who did it.

But are refusing to say.


20 posted on 04/16/2021 8:35:09 AM PDT by mewzilla (Those aren't masks. They're muzzles. )
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