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N.Y. college students accused of fabricating racially motivated attack
[CNN] Three New York college students who said they were targets of a racially motivated attack face multiple charges for what prosecutors are calling a false claim.Good idea. Manufacture hatred where there is none. A grand jury on Monday indicted Ariel Agudio, Asha Burwell and Alexis Briggs, all 20, each on a charge of third-degree assault and multiple counts of falsely reporting an incident, the Albany District Attorney's Office said. That will make people feel sorry for you. Agudio and Burwell also face charges of harassment. Agudio also was charged with two counts of attempted assault. Perhaps they will give you money. The State University of New York at Albany rallied behind the students, who are black, when they came forward with claims that a group of white men and women attacked them on January 30 in a confrontation on a city bus. Students held a rally and university President Robert J. Jones said in a letter to students and faculty that he was "deeply concerned, saddened and angry about this incident." It gets you bonus points in college, too. Others came to their defense on social media using the hashtag #DefendBlackGirlsUAlbany. The People of Color Caucus issued a letter in support of them. Letters of support from the People of Color Caucus go into your permanent record. But university police said an investigation revealed that no one used racial epithets against the women. Instead, they assaulted another passenger and falsely reported the incident. Oh. You mean they beat somebody else up and tried to blame them when they fought back? "What happened on the bus was not a 'hate crime,'" University Police Chief Frank Wiley said in February. "The only person we heard uttering racial epithets was one of the defendants." So it actually was a hate crime, just not the direction they claimed. Attorneys for the three women did not return CNN's calls requesting comment Monday afternoon. We're expecting to hear about the strongly worded letter from the Colorless People Caucus to go into their permanent records. Looking at the pictures of the three at the site, the one in the middle's black. The one on the right, with green eyes, looks like Mom or Pop might be white, and the one on the left looks like she might "identify" as black. I wonder if they show the same nasty degree of truculence with their white relatives? Posted by: Fred 2016-05-04 |
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