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INDEPENDENCE (AP) - Independence police have charged a man in this Kansas City suburb with filing a false police report after he said someone tried to carve the word "fag" on his forehead. There was one little problem with 22-year-old Floyd Elliot’s story: The superficial wound was backward, as if it were made while looking into a mirror. Officials yesterday said that the slur also was burned into Elliot’s chest but said it was not backward. They say he filed the original report on Dec. 14 because he wanted more officers to patrol his Independence neighborhood.

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...