Growing list of post-election 'hate crimes' turn out to be hoaxes

So you dont know... Thanks.

 

lmao, just a complete state of denial, anything to avoid the facts

 

"There's only 3 kinds of lies: Lies, damn lies, and statistics" Mark Twain

That quote comes from 150 years ago.

Statistics are so easily manipulated that they should always be taken with a grain of salt, and as soon as someone mentions an x-factor that said statistics don't incorporate, they should be immediately tossed.

Reported vs convicted is an absolute x-factor. If no one knows, those stats are trash.

 

take it up with the nypd, if you choose to ignore facts. it is reality, hate crimes are up. I don't need some junk opinion without facts, based on some irrelevant anecdotal wannabe phrase claiming otherwise

Here's more
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/15/us/politics/fbi-hate-crimes-muslims.html?_r=0
In its report on Monday, the F.B.I. cataloged a total of 5,818 hate crimes in 2015 — a rise of about 6 percent over the previous year — including assaults, bombings, threats, and property destruction against minorities, women, gays and others.

Attacks against Muslim Americans saw the biggest surge. There were 257 reports of assaults, attacks on mosques and other hate crimes against Muslims last year, a jump of about 67 percent over 2014. It was the highest total since 2001, when more than 480 attacks occurred in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks.

 

Dont be so harsh on yourself.

 

So tell me, if one guy shoots 80 gays in a club, is that 80 hate crimes or 1?

 

And another one...

White husband confesses to wife to setting their cars on fire and painting racial slur on their garage door in staged 'hate crime'

A white father-of-four has confessed to setting his own car on fire and painting a racial slur on their garage door in a staged hate crime.
David and Jenny Williams from Denton, Texas, woke up to find their truck and motorcycle ablaze and the vile slur 'n***** lovers' scrawled across their garage door in spray paint on December 12.
Police deemed the incident a hate crime and launched an arson investigation while well-wishers donated money to the family to help repair the damage.
On Tuesday, Mrs Williams however revealed it was her husband who had started the fire.

 

that is a question for the da

 

Yep it was reported as a hate crime and i am going to guess that is all outfits like the SLPC care about

 

Here's more:

http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/31/2016-the-year-of-the-hoax-hate-crime/

2016: The Year Of The Hoax Hate Crime

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noose hoax Shutterstock/nevodka noose hoax Shutterstock/nevodkaThe 2016 year saw an explosion in “hate crime” accounts that turned out to be hoaxes. Many of those accounts were attributed to supporters of Donald Trump.

TheDC compiled some of the best — or worst — hoaxes of 2016.

Albany University Race Hoax Fools The Media — And Hillary Clinton

Three black women at the University of Albany earned media coverage from liberal outlets like CNN in February when they claimed a white mob followed them onto a bus, hurling racial slurs and later attacking them. The alleged attack even caught the attention of Hillary Clinton, who sent a personal tweet stating that “There’s no excuse for racism and violence on a college campus.” There’s just one problem: the students made the whole thing up.

Shortly after the Bundys seized control of a federal building in Oregon, BuzzFeed ran a story titled “Cliven Bundy Claims Obama Threatened Donald Trump In Bizarre Hand-Written Lawsuit.” According to the original story, Bundy filed a bizarre lawsuit claiming — among other things — that President Obama forced Bundy to perform oral sex on Obama’s dogs. As it turns out, Bundy never filed such a lawsuit. A prankster felon named David Rothrock who has nothing to do with Bundy filed the hoax lawsuit in his name in 2014, fooling BuzzFeed with it almost two years later.

Lesbian Professor Fakes A Hate Crime To ‘Raise Awareness’

A lesbian professor at the University of Central Michigan claimed to have been the victim of a hate crime at a Toby Keith concert in which a random man called her a “cross-dressing (*)(*)(*)” before beating her up. The professor, Mari Poindexter, admitted in March that she had, in fact, punched herself in the face and invented the story. Poindexter claims she made up the story in order to “raise awareness about the social hardships of people in the LGBTQ+ community.”

Salisbury Hate Crime Involving Noose And Racial Slurs Turns Out To Be A Hoax

In April, ths campus police department at Salisbury University opened a “hate crime” investigation after a noose was drawn on a university white board, alongside the word “(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*)!” and the hashtag “#WhitePower” As it turns out, the “hate crime” was the handiwork of two black students (who were not charged).

Gay Man Fakes Whole Foods’ Anti-Gay Cake

Also in April, a gay Texas pastor named Jordan Brown sued Whole Foods claiming that he had ordered a cake with the words “LOVE WINS” written on it in icing, only to receive it with the words “LOVE WINS (*)(*)(*)” written instead. Brown later dropped the lawsuit and admitted Whole Foods “did nothing wrong” after the company filed a counter-suit and released footage showing when Brown picked up the cake, sans homophobic slur.

Student Loses Fight, Concocts Race Hoax To Cover It Up

A black student at the University of Iowa generated outrage in May when he claimed to have been attacked by three white men spitting racial epithets, sending him to the hospital. As it turns out, the black student’s facial injuries were the result of him starting a fight and then losing it. The student, Marcus Owens, reportedly made up the fictitious hate crime in order to cover up the truth about the original fight.

Black Activist Jailed For Hoax Racist Death Threats

In June, a black activist named Kayla-Simone McKelvey was sentenced to 90 days in jail for using a Kean University computer — her alma mater — to tweet death threats to black students, threatening to “kill all the blacks tonight.”

 

Here's more:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/17/n...r-wasnt-a-trump-related-hate-crime-after-all/

NARRATIVE FAIL: Muslim College Student’s Murder Wasn’t A Trump-Related Hate Crime After All

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Another Trump-related hate crime narrative vanished into thin air late last week when police arrested a twentysomething man with previous domestic violence convictions for the brutal murder of a University of Wisconsin–Stout student from Saudi Arabia.

The murder occurred in the wee hours of Oct. 30 in downtown Menomonie, Wisconsin, a few blocks from the UW-Stout campus. The victim, Hussain Saeed Alnahdi, died of a brain injury. He was 24 years old — a junior majoring in business administration.


On Thursday, police in St. Paul, Minnesota arrested Cullen M. Osburn for the murder. Upon his pending extradition to Wisconsin, Osburn will face charges of felony murder and battery.

Osburn, 27 and white, already has an impressive criminal past. When he was a lad of just 18, reports the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Osburn allegedly attempted to strangle his 16-year-old girlfriend because she wouldn’t have sex with him. He told her he would “cut her face so no one would want her,” the girl said. He also allegedly said his “dream suicide moment” would be to die in a police shootout at her house.

Osburn was later convicted for defying a court order to avoid contact with someone — presumably, but not certainly, the 16-year-old girl.

In October, in the immediate aftermath of Alnahdi’s murder, local police and various national agitators suggested that the murder may have been a hate crime perpetrated either because of Alnahdi’s Muslim religious beliefs or because of his status as an immigrant — or, of course, because Donald Trump was a candidate for president at the time.

A complete lack of evidence did not stop the investigators and others from raising the possibility of a hate crime. The murder took place on a public street with multiple witnesses in the vicinity and, as Minneapolis City Pages observes, none of those witnesses appear to have offered any evidence for a hate crime.

Nevertheless, The Washington Post suggested on Nov. 1 that Alnahdi’s brutal murder came “at a time when Muslims in the United States have expressed deep concern that they will be the target of hate crimes.” “Many” unidentified “advocates” who are concerned about hate crimes “point to rhetoric from Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, who has at various points called for a complete ban on Muslim immigrants,” the Post proclaimed just prior to the election.

The Post resorted to posting random Facebook comments about the murder to show that it might have been a hate crime. “The hate that has spread through our country is so sickening,” some unnamed Facebook user apparently wrote, for example.

The Post also pointed to data suggesting that hate crimes against Muslims have increased dramatically in the years since the Sept. 11, 2001 terror attacks. (RELATED: SHOCKER: Muslim College Student Drops Post-Election Hate Crime Claim)

Over at Daily Kos, also on Nov. 1, the tone and message was very similar to the sentiment expressed by The Washington Post.

“We need to wake up to the risk of a Trump presidency or even a close election that empowers his supporters to carry out the violence that is threatened toward immigrants and Muslims,” Daily Kos advised. “This may not turn out to be a hate crime, but that our thoughts immediately go this direction for a reason. We can’t be this kind of nation.”

“Please vote and help someone else to vote as well.”

A Nov. 2 article at the progressive website Truthout admitted that the altercation leading to Alnahdi’s death could have been “a bar fight gone wrong.” Still, “we need to wonder what role race might have played in this and not suggest that the very question implies unspeakable privilege.”

A Nov. 17 story by Saudi-owned television news channel Al Arabiya suggested that “the rise in Islamophobia in Donald Trump’s America” now has Saudis “watching their backs.”

Twitter users also entered the fray back when police were initially searching for a suspect in the brutal murder.

 

Here's more:

http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/04/s...-crime-to-get-people-to-pay-attention-to-him/

STUNNER: Allegedly Muslim Student Faked Vile Hate Crime To Get People To Pay Attention To Him

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A Muslim student at a liberal arts college in Wisconsin has been arrested for spray painting reprehensible anti-Muslim messages on his own dorm room door and then filing a report claiming that he was the victim of a hate crime.

The totally fake hate crime occurred last weekend at Beloit College, a 1,400-student bastion bursting with idiosyncratic individualists who enjoy leftist politics.

The student who falsely claimed that he was a victim of a terrible hate crime is Michael Kee, campus police told regional Fox affiliate WQRF-TV.

There were three spray-painted messages — all in bold red. In addition to “Sand (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)(*) go home,” the other two messages read “#muslimban” and “Die,” according to a contemporaneous account by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
There was also a red swastika spray-painted on a wall across from Kee’s room on the third floor of Bushnell Hall, an ugly slab of concrete on the Beloit campus.

The Journal Sentinel identifies Kee as Muslim.

A campus security officer found the messages on Kee’s dorm room door at around 2:30 a.m. on Monday morning.

The discovery came three days after Beloit campus police had opened a separate investigation into an anti-Semitic note that another student found slipped under a dorm room door.

“****, You should be gassed for what you say & do on this campus. Be worried (*)(*)(*)(*),” the anti-Semitic note read, according to The Times of Israel.

Investigators say Kee, 20, eventually admitted that he perpetrated the hoax because he hoped to receive the same kind of attention received by the student who allegedly received the anti-Semitic note.

“There were certain indicators that led us to believe there was a little more to the story,” Beloit police chief David Zibolski told WQRF-TV.

“We were already investigating the first incident when this one came up, which obviously ratcheted up the fear and concern on campus,” Zibolski said.

Here is Kee:

WQRF-TV screenshot
WQRF-TV screenshot

Beloit campus police say they believe the anti-Semitic note slipped under the dorm door is a legitimate hate crime. They have named no suspects. They say they continue to investigate.

Prior to the police revelation that Kee himself scrawled the anti-Muslim messages on his own dorm room door as well as the swastika across the hall, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel suggested that Kee’s hoax hate crime was part of “chaos” building “around the country over President Donald Trump’s executive order temporarily banning immigration from seven predominantly Muslim countries.”

Beloit police responded to the anti-Semitic note and Kee’s spray-painting hoax by ramping up campus patrols and adding residence hall entry limitations.

Beloit College president Scott Bierman sent a campus-wide email lamenting the “horrifying hate-filled threat” police now say Kee perpetrated on himself.

“I am, we are, overcome with concern for the well-being of our students and filled with anger and outrage because someone in our community feels emboldened to attack them,” Bierman pontificated, according to the Journal Sentinel.

“Let us reject hate together.”

After the hoax was exposed, Beloit College released a statement indicating that the school vows to crack down on hate crimes.

 

Remember this? http://www.jta.org/2007/11/06/news-opinion/jewish-student-behind-some-dorm-swastikas

 

OP

Exactly like the supposed 'hate crimes' post the Brexit referendum. I always said there's hadn't been enough time to collate the figures from the spurious claims of xenophobic hatred to the plod's 'confirmation' three days afterwards. More fake news?

 

It doesn't seem by ThinkProgress's reckoning that there are very many hate crimes, what do you think?:

https://thinkprogress.org/thinkprog...-here-s-what-we-found-e0288ed69869#.yf8rau4ok

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ThinkProgress has been tracking hate since Trump’s election. Here’s what we found.
It disturbed us.


Tom Garing cleans up racist graffiti painted on the side of a mosque in what officials are calling an apparent hate crime in Roseville, California. The Tarbiya Institute was spray-painted with a dozen obscene and racist slurs, including “Muslim out.” CREDIT: AP/Rich Pedroncelli
Three months ago, ThinkProgress began tracking the wave of hate incidents — threatening or harassing actions targeted against individuals because of their identities — that swept the country in the immediate aftermath of Donald Trump’s election as President of the United States. Our goal was to investigate the severity of the vitriol, giving readers a heavily scrutinized, researched vision of what hate looks like in the Trump era.
What we found disturbed us: Since November 9, 2016, we have tracked 261 hate incidents across the country.

CREDIT: Adam Peck/ThinkProgress
Our standard for a hate incident was very specific, and the bar for inclusion on our list was high. We only tracked occurrences targeted against individuals or communities, which means that we did not cite the numerous instances of vague but unmistakably hateful speech scrawled in public places across the country. We also required accounts to be backed up by a news article, a police report, or an original investigation by ThinkProgress.
As such, our final list is significantly smaller than the catalogue of instances collected by the Southern Poverty Law Center, which relies largely on first-hand accounts reported directly to the organization.

Furthermore, the precise nature of our methodology means our data does not necessarily reflect broader cultural expressions of hate, such as general anti-Muslim sentiment spouted by politicians. Our conclusions require context: For example, while anti-Muslim incidents are one of our smallest categories, they are also by far the smallest population of those listed. In addition, a disproportionate number of anti-Semitic incidents are part of a wave of bomb threats targeted at Jewish Community Centers, almost all of which came in recent weeks—as attacks on other groups began to dip.
Yet the number, scope, and severity of hate incidents remains staggering.
More populous states tended to have more occurrences—possibly because city dwellers are more likely to report them—but the wave of hate extended deep into the Southeast, Midwest, Northeast, and the American heartland. The incidents themselves run the gamut from disheartening to are chilling: Muslim women report being physically assaulted and told to remove their hijabs on buses and street corners. LGBTQ people allege being harassed and beaten as they walk home. Black churches were reportedly defaced with hateful racial slurs. A man of Guatemalan descent told police he was beaten as his assailants chanted “make America white again!” Trump supporters were also allegedly attacked, and at least three people were killed in what appear to be hate incidents.
Tracking the explosion of hate in Trump’s America

Hate incidents have skyrocketed since Election Day.
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And while Trump has done little to quell the rise in hate, the connection between many of these occurrences and his presidency is clear: 109 (42 percent) of the incidents we tracked over the past three months included specific references to Trump, his election, or his polices.
It is also clear that this time period produced noticeable spike in hate crimes, a specific legal category that varies by state. Even without our data, the FBI reported in December that twice as many hate crimes were recorded in New York City after the election than in the same time period in 2015. And despite claims by some that accounts were largely fabricated, only two incidents that made it on to our list were later discovered to be false (they were subsequently removed).
ThinkProgress will no longer be tracking these hate incidents in a systemic way, but a group of journalists and hate crime experts led by ProPublica will. We encourage you to follow their efforts.
In the meantime, feel free to investigate our map below.

 

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amph...ege-the-school-now-says-the-message-was-fake/

Grade Point

A racist note sparked protests at a Minnesota college. The school now says the message was fake.

By Peter Holley, Lindsey Bever
May 10, 2017 at 8:47 PM


The hate-filled note was allegedly found on a student’s windshield on April 29, and it contained an ominous warning:

“I am so glad that you are leaving soon,” the message said. “One less n‑‑‑‑‑ that this school has to deal with. You have spoken up too much. You will change nothing. Shut up or I will shut you up.”

Days of demonstrations against hate speech and canceled classes followed at St. Olaf College, a liberal arts school in Northfield, Minn.

There was only one problem: The note, as it turns out, was fake. And yet, it arrived on the heels of nine other reported acts of hate speech on campus in recent months.

In an email sent to the campus community Wednesday, St. Olaf College President David R. Anderson revealed that investigators “confronted a person of interest” and confirmed that the threatening note was “not a genuine threat.”


“We’re confident that there is no ongoing threat from this incident to individuals or the community as a whole,” the message said.

In a subsequent email, Anderson offered more clues about the author and the note, but did not offer a name.

“The reason I said in my earlier note that this was not a genuine threat is that we learned from the author’s confession that the note was fabricated,” he added. “It was apparently a strategy to draw attention to concerns about the campus climate.”

Anderson went on to say that federal privacy laws prohibit the college from disclosing the identity of the note’s author.

Related: Protests erupt, classes canceled after racist notes enrage a Minnesota college

Samantha Wells, the student who allegedly found the note, appeared to reference the president’s email on Twitter Wednesday, according to the Minnesota Star Tribune. In several tweets, the paper reported, Wells referenced being linked to the university’s investigation, but did not explicitly claim responsibility for fabricating the note.

“So, it looks like something made its way back to me in the investigation,” she tweeted. “I will be saying it was a hoax. I don’t care. There is nothing more that I can do.”

Police told the Star Tribune that Wells declined to file a criminal case, leading authorities to drop their investigation. Police told the paper that Wells informed them she’d prefer not to be involved in an investigation as she neared graduation before leaving for Europe.

Attempts to reach Wells via email were not immediately successful.

The racist note set off a flurry of student action that eventually resulted in an agreement between school officials and student protesters after several days of protest. Anderson sent an email to students May 1 stating that the administration had agreed with the student-led group “Collective For Change on The Hill,” which interrupted a college forum earlier in the day to present administrators with their demands.


“This the first step in a process toward a long-term solution, and all of us on campus are committed to moving forward in a spirit of collaboration to address these important issues,” he said.

School administrators eventually canceled classes “so that we may have time for faculty, students, and staff to continue the discussions about racism and diversity on our campus,” St. Olaf spokeswoman Kari VanDerVeen said at the time.

The racist note was the latest incident in a series of similar expressions against students.

“It’s been something that’s been going on all year,” Wells told fellow students during the weekend demonstrations, according to the Northfield News. “We’ve done so much digging and this stuff has happened for decades. There’s one thing that happens and it stops and then it happens again and then it kind of stops. I think the big message is we shouldn’t let this happen again. The administration needs to do something that stops it indefinitely.”

“We are protesting to help change the institutional structure that perpetuates racism here at St. Olaf,” she told The Washington Post in an email May 1.

Related: A white supremacist is accused of punching a protester. Classmates say he makes them feel ‘unsafe.’

Nearly 3,000 full-time students were enrolled in St. Olaf College in fall 2016; 2,214 of the students were white and 63 were black, according to enrollment figures.

During the current school year, there have been nine reported acts of hate speech on campus — three incidents during the first semester and six during the second semester — according to the college.

School officials called it “deeply troubling” that some racist messages were being sent directly to specific students and said the administration is working to find those responsible for the “hate-filled acts.”


“The racist message a student received this weekend follows several other racist acts on campus throughout the year, including written racial epithets and a message targeted at another student,” VanDerVeen, the school spokeswoman, said in a statement several days after the protests began. “In addition to the sharp rise in incidents, it is also deeply troubling that the perpetrators have begun directing messages to specific members of our community.

“These acts are despicable. They violate every value we hold as a community, and they have absolutely no place at St. Olaf.”

In an April 21 email to students, Anderson, the college president, compared the recent incidents to a form of terrorism.

“I am as angry and frustrated as you are at the repeated violations of our values and community norms by someone who defaces the campus with scrawled racial epithets,” Anderson wrote. “I would love nothing more than to discover who is responsible for these acts and to remove that person from our community.”

The Northfield News reported that a student discovered a similar note on his car earlier in the month.

Then, the outlet reported, another student found a note in her backpack that read, “Go back to Africa.”