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Ex-football player accused of pulling a ‘Jussie Smollett’ in Georgia
2019-09-16
[NYPOST] A former tackle for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers was arrested for trashing his Georgia restaurant and making it appear he was the victim of a hate crime, authorities said.

Edawn Louis Coughman, 31, was charged Wednesday with criminal masterminding the Jussie Smollett
...Cable TV actor whose primary talents seemed to be being black and being homosexual. In a bid for national attention, he paid a pair of Nigerian brothers to rough him up a little so he could claim that two large, white, MAGA hat-wearing men had shouted This is MAGA country! while thumping him at 2:30am on a bitter cold night in Chicago and throwing bleach on him, presumably to lighten him up. The story quickly unraveled, and he became a laughingstock and the poster boy for pretend victimization and attention whoredom...
-reminiscent crime at his Lawrenceville business so he could collect from his insurance company and still sell the undamaged appliances he’d claimed were stolen.

Coughman used a yellow crowbar to make it look like a break-in and black spray paint to write "racially-motivated words, swastikas, and ’MAGA’ " on the property, the Gwinnett County Police Department said in a blurb.

Smollett, of "Empire" fame, was accused of pretending he’d been jumped in reliably Democrat Chicago, aka The Windy City or Mobtown
...home of Al Capone, the Chicago Black Sox, a succession of Daleys, Barak Obama, and Rahm Emmanuel...
by thugs hollering, "This is MAGA country!"

Police recovered the crowbar, spray paint and appliances from the bed of Coughman’s pickup truck.

Coughman was charged with false report of a crime, insurance fraud and concealing a license plate.

Posted by:Fred

#14  NFL.com shows him as Edawn Coughman. I think M. Murcek (#5) wins the prize.
Posted by: Bobby   2019-09-16 16:22  

#13  :-)
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-09-16 13:46  

#12  TW, yes saw that too and initially thought that SpellCheck was wreaking another of its horrorz.
"Kauffman"? Kauff: Is that a foreign language?? We don't know no foreign languages in techland ... they must have meant Cough... hmmm: Cough + man = Coughman. There you go! And you're done! 'Organizing the world's information and making it useless to anyone but us.' ......
Posted by: Lex   2019-09-16 11:54  

#11  Unless, of course, the cops planted the evidence....
Posted by: Bobby   2019-09-16 08:41  

#10  Doesn't sound like the poh-leese will need to over-investigate (like they did in Chicago).
Posted by: Bobby   2019-09-16 08:40  

#9  Bet he was a kneeler
Posted by: Bright Pebbles   2019-09-16 08:11  

#8  Black America's fastest growing industry is fake hate crimes.
Posted by: Neville Grusoling2019   2019-09-16 03:17  

#7  Kaufman. The Pittsburgh Kaufmans were indeed merchants and bankrolled the construction of Wright masterwork Fallingwaters
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-09-16 02:17  

#6  Coughman

You mean German, Lex. It just means merchant or shopkeeper.
Posted by: trailing wife   2019-09-16 02:09  

#5  "People of color" determine name spellings by dumping scrabble tiles on the floor in the maternity waiting area...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-09-16 02:06  

#4  "Edawn" is bad enough, but who gave his family the name "Coughman"?
They wanted to sound Hebraic but didn't know how to spell?
Posted by: Lex   2019-09-16 01:33  

#3  NFL has his back in 3-2-1...
Posted by: M. Murcek   2019-09-16 01:08  

#2  Facepalm: "Police recovered the crowbar, spray paint and appliances from the bed of Coughman’s pickup truck.."
Posted by: Whiskey Mike   2019-09-16 00:33  

#1  I hate it when they do that.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-09-16 00:18  

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