Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:Well. It doesn't help the national consciousness when fake hate crimes are committed, reported widely as the truth, and when discovered to be a hoax garner much less coverage:
• Julie Baker set up a GoFundMe campaign after reporting that a neighbor left a note threatening to call police over a multicolored display in her yard – and she asked donors for $5,000 to make it “even more ‘relentlessly gay,’” borrowing a phrase from the note. “Your yard is becoming Relentlessly Gay!” the note read. “Myself and Others in the neighborhood ask that you Tone it Down. This is a Christian area and there are Children. Keep it up and I will be forced to call the police on You! Your kind need to have Respect for GOD.” Her story went viral, but questions soon arose over the 47-year-old widow’s claims. Social media users noted that the anonymous note used the same idiosyncratic capitalization pattern as Baker’s social media posts. Baker told police that she no longer had the letter and disabled her gofundme.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/baltimo ... rent-hoax/• Teen made up story about anti-Muslim attack on subway. She is is being charged with filing a false report. Seweid had claimed hateful drunks shouted “Trump! Trump!” and called her a “terrorist” as they tried to steal her headscarf.
http://nypost.com/2016/12/14/teen-made- ... on-subway/ • Juan Thompson, former journalist for The Intercept (fired for fabricating quotes in his Anti-Trump stories), caught in bizarre hate crime hoax in which he made several bomb threats to Jewish community centers. (These threats were initially blamed on Trump supporters by the media)
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/juan-thomps ... ted-in-ny/ • Police say a Volusia County man faked a hate crime, set his ex-girlfriend's car on fire and then staged his own abduction to throw off detectives. Vincent Palmer, 27, told detectives he taped a note with racial slurs and the words "KKK" and "Trump" written on it to his ex-girlfriend's mailbox
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/tru ... olice-say/ • Muslim man worshipped at his mosque daily for several years, then sets it on fire in fake hate crime.
http://www.bigstory.ap.org/article/fe46 ... osque-fire • Jewish student caught painting Swastikas on her own door then claiming Anti-Semitic Attack • Jewish man gets caught red handed spraying anti-Jewish hate messages in New York • An openly bisexual Chicago student who claimed she received anti-gay, pro-Donald Trump notes and emails after the election is found to have fabricated the entire story, North Park University said. Taylor Volk told a local NBC News affiliate that she found one of the notes taped to her door at her off-campus residence, which read “Back to hell” and “#Trump” along with homophobic slurs. “This is a countrywide epidemic all of a sudden,” she said on Nov. 14. “I just want them to stop.”
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... -fabricat/ • 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 • 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.
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/local_ ... _in_malden • A Colorado Springs man was arrested after police believe he left racist messages outside a church. Vincent Broughton, 44, who is black, is facing charges for committed a bias-motivated crime and disorderly conduct. The signs were posted outside the New Covenant church that is predominantly attended by African Americans. One sign references the KKK. Another reads, “Black men beware, you are the target.”
http://denver.cbslocal.com/2015/06/30/s ... de-church/ • Openly-gay Pastor admits he lied about a Whole Foods incident that caused a public outcry, claiming that a cake he bought at Whole Foods was decorated with a homophobic slur. The company also released a statement saying that it reviewed security footage and determined that Brown had tampered with the cake. He later said "The company did nothing wrong. I was wrong to pursue this matter and use the media to perpetuate this story. I want to apologize to Whole Foods and its team members for questioning the company's commitment to its values, and especially the bakery associate who I understand was put in a terrible position because of my actions."
http://www.businessinsider.com/pastor-d ... ods-2016-5 • The students identified as the people behind a recent racist drawing found at Salisbury University’s library are black, school officials confirmed Tuesday. The image, found April 10 on a whiteboard in Blackwell Library, showed a stick figure being hung and labeled with a racial slur. Underneath was the hashtag “#whitepower.”
http://college.usatoday.com/2016/04/27/ ... t-drawing/ • Woman admits tweeting fake threats to fellow black students. According to prosecutors, the 25-year-old McKelvey tweeted threats from a campus library because she wanted more people to attend the November 17, 2015, rally on racial issues. She then returned to the rally to tell people about the threats. One tweet addressed to campus police read: "@kupolice I will kill all the blacks tonight, tomorrow and any other day if they go to Kean University."
https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-admits ... 20195.html • Police have zeroed in on an unexpected culprit as being behind a racist, pro-Trump graffiti spree in Philadelphia: a 58-year-old black man. The graffiti included “Trump Rules” and “Black B----.”
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/12/05/Brian Laundrie ... lphia.html • Over the summer, 19-year-old Jesus Cabrera told police he was verbally harassed by three white men, authorities said. He said the men made disparaging remarks about his ethnicity, and police in turn investigated the incident as a hate crime. He was arrested Friday after police say he admitted to making up the story.
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/news/local/Ea ... 63461.htmlThis one is not a 'fake hate crime,' but it's worth mentioning:
• A man who claimed President Trump’s controversial travel ban caused his mother to die in Iraq lied. He claimed he was the only one of his family members allowed through at the border, and his mother, stranded at the Iraqi airport, passed away the next day.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nationa ... -1.2961110- Doc
