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Alleged gay-bashing at Marin high school a hoax, police said Sunday May 08, 2005 MILL VALLEY, Calif. (AP) A 17-year-old top wrestler at an area high school here faked a series of gay-bashing incidents that prompted a police investigation, authorities said. The rash of gay-bashing incidents at Tamalpais High School was the work of a student gay leader who claimed she was the victim of hate crimes, according to Mill Valley Police Capt. James Wickham. The 17-year-old girl who leads the school's Gay-Straight Alliance admitted to authorities she was the perpetrator of the incidents, which included vandalizing her own car...

Police: Woman Concocted Scheme To Get Out Of School BANNOCKBURN, Ill. -- Officials say a college student is free on bond after being charged with disorderly conduct and a hate crime. Police say a black female student has confessed to sending threatening letters targeting fellow minority students at her small Christian university, Trinity International University, apparently to convince her parents the school was too dangerous for her to stay. If convicted, Alicia Hardin could get up to five years in prison. Authorities said she told them that she was unhappy and wanted to leave. The letters were sent to two...

BANNOCKBURN, Ill., April 26 - A 19-year-old African-American student at Trinity International University was charged Tuesday with committing a hate crime, accused of sending threatening letters in recent weeks to three other minority students at her university and setting off panic among the 170 black and Hispanic undergraduates there. The police said the student, Alicia A. Hardin, admitted Monday to sending the letters. Ms. Hardin, of Chicago, said she was unhappy at Trinity International, an evangelical Christian college in Chicago's northern suburbs, and wanted her parents to think the campus was unsafe so she could transfer, the police said. For...

Bannockburn police arrested a black, female Trinity International University student today in connection with a series of racially tinged letters sent to minority students. Alicia Hardin, 19, of Dolton, confessed to mailing the three letters Monday to members of the task force investigating the matter. Police said Hardin wanted to transfer to a different school because she was unhappy at Trinity but her parents would not let her. The letters, police said, were her way of implying the campus was not safe. Hardin appeared at the Lake County Courthouse in Waukegan Tuesday morning on a charge of disorderly conduct and...

Floyd Elliott, Independence, MO., called Independence, MO Police to report a vicious "Hate" crime, December 14, 2004. It seems that two men attacked him, tying him up and carving the word "Fag" into his forehead and also burning the word on his chest.Police became suspicious when investigating the crime as the word "Fag" on the man's forehead was backward (as if one was looking into a mirror when attempting to self mutilate.) The word on the man's chest was written correctly, however.After further investigation, Elliott admitted filing a false report because he felt that the Independence Police didn't patrol the...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. -- Police said a 22-year-old man was charged with filing a false report about a hate crime. Floyd Elliott Floyd Elliott, of Independence, told police that on Dec. 14, two subjects attacked him in the parking lot of his apartment complex. He said the attackers cut him in the stomach, branded him with a hot knife, and attempted to carve the word "Fag" on his forehead. Investigators were suspicious about the report because the head carving was backwards, as if done while looking into a mirror.Later, Elliott admitted to police that the injuries were self-inflicted. He said...

Professor Gets Year in Prison for Fake 'Hate Crime' Remember that left-wing egghead at Claremont McKenna College who vandalized her own car and then cried "hate crime"? Today she got sentenced to a year in the slammer. Kerri Dunn, who is, naturally, a professor of psychology, falsely claimed that her Honda was spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs. She had faced up to three years in a California prison for filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud. Get this: Miss Dunn staged the criminal hoax and launched a headline-grabbing spree of "hate crime" hysteria...

A former Claremont McKenna College psychology professor convicted of falsely reporting her car was vandalized and spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs was sentenced Wednesday to a year in state prison. Kerri Dunn, 40, of Redlands, was convicted Aug. 18 of one misdemeanor count of filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud stemming from the March 9 incident. She had faced anywhere from probation to three years in prison. She had claimed her car was targeted in what at first appeared to be a hate crime while she was speaking at a campus forum...

Remember that left-wing egghead at Claremont McKenna College who vandalized her own car and then cried "hate crime"? Today she got sentenced to a year in the slammer. Kerri Dunn, who is, naturally, a professor of psychology, falsely claimed that her Honda was spray-painted with racist and anti-Semitic slurs. She had faced up to three years in a California prison for filing a false police report and two felony counts of attempted insurance fraud. Get this: Miss Dunn staged the criminal hoax and launched a headline-grabbing spree of "hate crime" hysteria (as opposed to all those "love crimes" being committed...

SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) - More than half the suspects fired upon with Taser stun guns are Hispanic, according to a report commissioned by the police chief. The finding prompted civil rights groups to claim the city's police department is unfairly targeting minorities. Police chief Rob Davis said the figure makes sense because it matches the rate at which Hispanics are investigated for crimes. Hispanics accounted for 52 percent of the arrests and citations issued by police during the period studied and 53 percent of the 110 stun gun uses. The police department on Friday released its first comprehensive report...

Democrats cite vandalism at Lafayette Kerry office By The Associated Press LAFAYETTE -- John Kerry campaign signs were burned and pro-Bush messages scrawled on windows and a door at the Kerry headquarters, the chairman of the Louisiana Democratic Party said Thursday. It was the second act of vandalism aimed at the Democratic presidential nominee's campaign office in Lafayette. Calling it an "an obvious attempt to intimidate our workers, and a misguided attempt to promote the candidacy of President Bush," chairman Mike Skinner said the messages scrawled at the office here included a "huge" W on the front door, and "GWB"...

Trial opens for professor accused of fraud By MIRA KATZ, Staff Writer POMONA - A man with a tool box and not Kerri Dunn may have been the culprit who vandalized the former Claremont McKenna College psychology professor's car. Dunn's attorney said in opening statements Friday that Dunn of Redlands did not spray-paint hateful slurs on her Honda Civic and slash its tires, and during her trial he plans to call the college's electrician as a witness. The electrician will tell the jury a man with a tool box was crouched by her car the night of the incident that...

Professor's past in play at fraud trialBy ROD LEVEQUESTAFF WRITERPOMONA - Kerri Dunn's past could come back to haunt her if she chooses to take the witness stand in a trial set to begin today. Dunn, the college professor accused of vandalizing her own car and falsely reporting it as a hate crime, may be confronted during her trial with a 4-year-old allegation that she once faked injuries to herself and then blamed them on police during a shoplifting arrest in Nebraska, a judge ruled Thursday. Prosecutors may also try to impeach her testimony by questioning her about a shoplifting...

Police detain Marie L. who claimed she had been attacked by youths of Arab and African origin who drew swastikas on her stomach on a suburban train. A French woman who claimed to have suffered an anti-Semitic attack that sent shock waves throughout the entire political system in France, told police on Tuesday that she had made up the incident, a judicial source said. The 23-year-old woman and her male companion were detained after police called them in to discuss the alleged attack, in which she said six knife-wielding youths of Arab and African origin who drew swastikas on her...

Last Updated: Tuesday, 13 July, 2004, 18:59 GMT 19:59 UK Swastika attack woman 'lied'The reported assault follows a rise in anti-Semitic attacks A French woman who alleged she had been the subject of an anti-Semitic attack invented the story, police sources say. The alleged admission came shortly after the she was taken into custody - four days after the alleged assault on a train in the suburbs of Paris. The 23-year-old woman said six men cut her clothes and drew swastikas on her body, accusing her of being Jewish. The woman has been detained for falsely reporting a crime, state...

http://209.211.253.6/goodstuff/midi/tv-movies/ MIDI - DAISY While she's warping students' minds at CMC...she claimed she's a victim and said "Whoa is me" Someone slashed her tires and painted her car...she said its a hate crime...Kerri went too far They have...the goods on that *itch...spray can...she forgot to ditch It is funny what the leftists pull They are always staging stunts and slinging bull It's a real who Dunn it...maybe not It was just one more pathetic whackjob...plot But, too bad for her, two witnesses saw what she did...she's busted Her *ss got hit by the door On her way out...now her next...

FBI questions Claremont prof’s report of vandalism By Chris Dolan, News Editor. Published Wednesday March 24, 2004 On Sunday, officials at Claremont McKenna College (CMC) in Claremont, Calif. announced that they have placed Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Kerri Dunn on paid leave while they investigate her possible dishonesty regarding the vandalism of her vehicle. On March 9, Dunn spoke at a forum about racism at CMC. When she returned to her car after the forum, Dunn reported that someone had broken the windows, slashed the tires and spray-painted the exterior with racist and sexist remarks. At the time...

College to investigate vandalism By JASON NEWELL and MIRA KATZ STAFF WRITERS CLAREMONT - A Claremont McKenna College psychology professor was placed on a temporary paid leave of absence while the college investigates whether she vandalized her own car and reported it as a hate crime, according to a statement released Saturday by the college president. "Such an investigation and review is important and necessary prior to taking any further personnel action because Professor (Kerri) Dunn denies any involvement in this incident and the College is not aware of the full details of the police investigation," Pamela Gann's statement read....

CHICAGO -- A 19-year-old Northwestern University student was charged with felony disorderly conduct for allegedly faking two racist incidents earlier this month because "he wanted to do something to motivate minority students," police said Tuesday. Nov. 11: Northwestern University Students Rally Against Hate Jaime A. Saide (pictured, right), 19, of Des Moines, was charged late Monday with two counts of felony disorderly conduct for filing separate false police reports claiming he was the victim of a hate crime, Evanston Police Commander Michael Perry said. In the first report, filed Nov. 4, Saide said someone hung a sign on the door...

A Heber City motel owner accused of setting his business ablaze and portraying it as a hate crime will stand trial on first-degree felony aggravated arson charges, a 4th District judge has ruled. Prosecutors allege Mazhar Tabesh, 39, invented a "mystery man" staying in Room 112 of the Alpine Lodge, and that he set the July 21 blaze himself in an effort to escape financial problems. After a preliminary hearing last month, Judge Donald Eyre delayed a ruling until defense attorney Ron Yengich filed written arguments. But in a ruling filed last week, Eyre bound Tabesh over to stand trial....