Paingod wrote:Rip wrote:What is the rate of hoaxes compared to the normal rate?
I'm sure a lot of normal folks are going to go out and paint swastikas on their own homes in order to get attention. Most normal (non-white supremesists) would rather proudly put up a "Not my President" sticker than paint vile hate logos on their own homes. So I'm guessing the hoax rate is something like 0.01%. Even if someone went out and did this as a "hoax" to rile people up, it still sends the same message to everyone else and it quickly stops being a hoax to everyone else involved.
This is becoming the golden age of the internet troll, finally crawling out of their basement caves and slopping their shit in reality. They're just following the Great Leader's example.
On Saturday morning, two students vandalized Griffin Hall to bring attention to the potential impact of the presidential election on campus.
The students poured a red wood-stain substance resembling blood down the main stairwell of Griffin Hall and wrote “AMKKK KILL” in the stairwell. In addition, the perpetrators splattered the stain substance around the lobby outside of Griffin 3.
The vandalism was discovered by a visitor to campus, who had been inside the Thompson Memorial Chapel. After leaving the chapel, the visitor wanted to see the inside of Griffin Hall and discovered what he thought was blood upon entering the building through the main entrance on the South side. The visi-tor immediately contacted the Williamstown Police Department (WPD) at noon on Saturday and both the WPD and Campus Safety and Security (CSS), which was contacted by the WPD, responded.
http://williamsrecord.com/2016/11/16/tw ... -saturday/
Strong accusations were made by a Bowling Green State University student the day after election day.
Eleesha Long said she was assaulted and called a racial slur, but BG police said she made the story up.
Long wrote a police complaint on November 9th that reads in part, "while walking down Crim St to ask for yard signs, three boys began to throw rocks at me."
Long continued to write the white males shouted profanity at her while wearing Trump shirts. She described how all three young men looked and what they were wearing.
http://www.13abc.com/content/news/BG-po ... 14426.html
A Bowling Green State University official announced Friday that a man’s story that he was pushed to the ground, robbed, and called a derogatory slur wasn’t true.
Thomas Gibson, vice president for student affairs and vice provost, sent an email updating students about the investigation. He said filing a false report is a serious offense, but did not elaborate on the incident.
A man previously said two assailants pushed him to the ground and robbed him about 4 p.m. Tuesday behind the Student Recreation Center. They then called him a derogatory slur, according to a university spokesman.
Officials did not publicly identify him. A police spokesman was unavailable for comment Friday evening.
The incident is the second occurrence this month investigated by the university where someone claimed to have been assaulted and called a racial slur that turned out to be false.
Bowling Green city police charged a woman they said fabricated a report that she was assaulted and called a racial slur on Nov. 9 in the 200 block of Crim Street.
Officers charged Eleesha Long, 24, of Bowling Green with falsification and obstructing official business. She is set for arraignment Nov. 28 in Bowling Green Municipal Court.
http://www.toledoblade.com/Police-Fire/ ... e-too.html
Hateful notes and emails allegedly sent to a North Park University student were “fabricated,” the school’s president said Tuesday in a statement, and the woman who claimed they were aimed toward her is no longer enrolled at the school.
“We are confident there is no further threat of repeated intolerance to any member of our campus community stemming from this recent incident,” the university’s President David Parkyn said in a statement.
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/no ... 56366.html
Many Stone County High School students who attended a prayer rally Wednesday said allegations that white students placed a noose around the neck of a black student and yanked it have been misconstrued.
A racially diverse group of students and residents gathered in Blaylock Park to unite in prayer after their small community came under the national spotlight with the NAACP calling for a federal hate-crime investigation into the incident.
NAACP officials held a press conference Monday, accusing a group of white students, including a member of the football team, of putting a rope around a black player’s neck. At least one pulled on the rope, but several others were involved, an NAACP official said.
Derrick Johnson, the state NAACP director, said witnesses characterized the pulling of the rope as like the tightening of a noose and said the town of Wiggins has “always been a trouble spot” for racism.
But the students and residents who spoke to the Sun Herald on Wednesday disputed those claims, saying the incident was locker-room mischief involving a jump rope — not a rope tied into a noose — with no malicious motivation behind it.
Student Dennis Rojas said the player accused of the act is actually good friends with the black student.
Rojas and students Mikayla Shaw and Breanna Hull agreed it was a prank gone wrong.
Hull said it was never an issue at the school until it gained national media attention.
Gail Collins, a Wiggins resident of more than 30 years, said she’s never personally experienced any racism in the town.
http://www.sunherald.com/news/local/art ... 25232.html
A woman who claimed in a Facebook post that she was a victim of a sexual assault and that Kirkland Police responded but did not investigate, made it all up.
Police say the woman, who they did not identify, admitted she fabricated the entire event. She told police she posted the false claim because she was “distraught over the recent election.”
http://q13fox.com/2016/11/18/woman-post ... -election/
Police said Friday morning that a woman who claimed a stranger slashed her in the face made the whole story up.
The 20-year-old woman had previously said that she was walking on a lower Manhattan sidewalk Thursday when she was slashed in the face by stranger who called her a "terrorist."
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/EM ... 91921.html
A 15-year-old transgender teen admitted to police Tuesday that he made up a story about being sexually assaulted a day earlier in the boys bathroom at Hercules Middle High School, authorities said.
The boy acknowledged making the false report - which raised alarm at the school and around the Bay Area - after investigators told him that the evidence gathered in the case didn't corroborate his story, said Hercules police Detective Connie Van Putten.
Police found no injuries to the boy's head, face or hands, Van Putten said.
The boy's original report had raised concerns on campus, in part because of a previous incident in which another transgender student was involved in a fight on campus in November.
Police have closed what they initially considered a hate-crime investigation and are considering whether the teenager will face criminal charges for filing a false police report, Van Putten said.
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/H ... to-5976783
Calum McSwiggan, 26, a YouTuber, posted a photo of himself on social media claiming that he was attacked outside a gay bar in West Hollywood Monday, but the police are telling a different story.
In a statement to The Advocate, Holly M. Perez, captain of the West Hollywood Station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, said that authorities responded to McSwiggan's report that he was assaulted by three men outside of a gay club. Officers "were unable to substantiate the assault," Perez said. The YouTuber "had no visible injuries" and was arrested when officers went to the scene "after deputies observed him vandalizing a car." The 26-year-old was booked and photographed (photo above) and placed in a cell by himself at the West Hollywood Station. It was there that station personnel say McSwiggan "was then observed injuring himself with the handle and receiver to a payphone inside the cell."
The YouTuber was taken to a local hospital to be treated for his injuries. "Mr. McSwiggan’s booking photo was taken prior to deputies seeing Mr. McSwiggan injuring himself," according to the sheriff's department statement, after providing McSwiggan's booking photo, which shows no visible injuries.
http://www.advocate.com/crime/2016/6/28 ... hate-crime
In the latest case of a faked hate crime, a 20-year-old man has admitted he made it up when he told Malden cops he was harassed by two men proclaiming it’s “Trump country now.”
The man, whose name police have not released, had filed a complaint saying when he got off an MBTA bus near Broadway Square in Malden at 10 p.m. Tuesday, at least two white men approached him.
The men used a racial slur, made a reference to lynching and warned him this is Donald “Trump country now,” according to the report he gave police. He was able to get away from the men and hid before calling police, officials said.
Investigators prioritized resources for the suspected “hate crime” incident and re-interviewed the alleged victim.
“As a result, it has been determined that the story was completely fabricated,” Malden police Chief Kevin Molis said in a statement. “The alleged victim admitted that he had made up the entire story,” saying he wanted to “raise awareness about things that are going on around the country.”
Police informed the man of the legal consequences of filing a false police report and warned him of the potential damaging impact that they had on the local community.
Malden Mayor Gary Christenson said, “When I heard the story was fabricated, we were not surprised at all.”
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_ ... _in_malden
I could go on but my hand is tired.
