Beware Hate Crime Hoaxes

Real Clear Politics ^ | November 7, 2007 | Clarence Page

[Signalman]

A student at George Washington University recently complained that swastikas were scrawled on her dormitory door. Thanks to cameras hidden by university police, they have a suspect: The student who filed the complaint. I was shocked but not surprised, just as I am shocked but not surprised when, with thousands of cars on the road, some get into accidents. Similarly with the recent upsurge in national attention to swastikas, nooses and other racial vandalism in public places, I am shocked but not surprised that at least one case of racial-ethnic vandalism turns out to be phony. The young woman's sad case might have passed without much off-campus notice if these were not times in which any knucklehead with a rope or a felt-tipped pen can make national news by hanging a noose or scrawling racist graffiti in a conspicuous location. This upsurge in media interest followed the march that brought thousands to tiny Jena, La., in September. The marchers were protesting a series of racially charged local events that began with nooses hung from a tree in a schoolyard. With the help of black talk radio shows and blogs, Jena's local stories became a national cause with the Revs. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton in the lead.

[subterfuge]

Link from Ann’s article:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1912705/posts

[subterfuge]

Is this the only recent one that has been determined to be a hoax? What about the ones at Columbia?

See post 20.

[flowerplough]

RE: security videos & the noose-on-door professor at Columbia, time seems to have stopped. My searches show no news stories dated later than October 12th.

[GovernmentShrinker]

Funny, isn’t it, especially since at the time, Columbia and Ms. Noose-on-door were acting like it was the most earthshakingly awful news since 9/11. Then amazingly quickly, their interest in catching and publicly identifying the perpetrator dropped to zero.

[fanfan]

Spread the word.

Protect yourself from the coming hate crime “set-up’s”

[flowerplough]

Yep. Funny. Like George Thorogood says, “Everybody funny, now Columbia funny, too.”

[Lancey Howard]

Claremont Hate Crime Called Hoax
LA Times ^ (FR thread) | March 17. 2004 | Joy Buchanan, Kristina Sauerwein and Stuart Silverstein

A week after a reported campus hate crime drew national attention, sparked protests and shut down the prestigious Claremont Colleges, police on Wednesday called the incident a hoax staged by a professor who slashed tires, shattered windows and spray-painted racist graffiti on her own car.

Claremont McKenna College psychology professor Kerri Dunn, who had told police that her car was vandalized as she spoke at a March 9 forum on racism, was identified by two eyewitnesses as the person who damaged the auto, authorities said Wednesday.

She was not arrested, but Claremont Police Lt. Stan Van Horn said the case would be sent to the Los Angeles County district attorney for review and that the likely charge would be filing a false police report, a misdemeanor. The FBI said she might face more serious felony charges of lying to federal investigators.

Campus leaders last week had condemned the vandalism as a hate crime, shut down the Claremont consortium of colleges for a day of anti-hate rallies and called in FBI investigators. The police contention that Dunn staged the incident triggered a wave of anger against her Wednesday and fears that students would become cynical about racism.

Professor Kerri Dunn vandalized her own car.

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