Brian Anderson wrote about the recent possible hate hoax.
https://ift.tt/2CMtkqM
Nice play on the smelling fishy pun.
As soon as the first reports of the incident came out, I think most of DefCon readers thought “HOAX”. There’s always something about the details that sounds not quite right.
Some things stand out in this incident. Brian mentioned several.
- stopped at a red light and “heard someone yell out a racial epithet,”
- She looked and saw four men, all white
- her hair didn’t even get singed
- four men hoping that a black person would randomly get caught at a stoplight
- it never occurred to the “victim” to call the police after being set on fire by 4 white guys
- 18-year-old EMT and yet couldn’t diagnose her wounds as hospital-worthy
Here are a couple more incongruities.
There is a burn right under her eye, and, like her hair, neither her eyebrows nor her eyelashes are singed. No damage to her eye.
The typical BIC type lighter obviously doesn’t stay lit when released. A Zippo type lighter would have been found in her car. Plus, no self-respecting Zippo user would ever throw it away. And most accelerants will not ignite that easily, the way gasoline or vaporizing alcohol* does.
If she “patted out the flames (from a flammable liquid), and eventually drove home,” why were there no burns, not even first degree, on her hand?
Also this, “one used a spray bottle to deploy a liquid on her face and neck”. What kind of spray bottle? A squirt bottle like charcoal lighter fluid or Zippo lighter fluid? A pump spray bottle? A spray bottle like restaurants use for ketchup?
Plus, the liquid only landed in relatively small spots on her neck and on her face? None landed on and burned her clothing? The liquid didn’t run down her skin causing long burn marks?
The incident allegedly took place just a few blocks from violent protests at the State Capitol. Someone also threw a Molotov cocktail into a government building and attempted to break into the Capitol. Was she at or near the riots?
Madison Officials and the Police Department were quick to judge:
The Mayor’s statement: “current information suggests this may have been a premeditated crime targeted toward people of color, which makes the incident even more disturbing”. More disturbing? If it was a black burning a black, or a white burning a white, it’d be LESS disturbing? If it was “people of color” burning a white, it would be OK?
MAYOR SATYA
The Police spokesman:
“Our department believes victims, and we take their statement and then thoroughly investigate what they said happened to them. We believe this victim,” Why? Policy I guess.
JOEL DE SPAIN
It always leads to trouble when judgement is made BEFORE the investigation. Plus, that’s not the way our system is supposed to work. They should be able to get to the bottom of this pretty quickly.
CNN: Police are working on obtaining permission to access Bernstein’s hospital records, according to Madison police spokesperson Joel DeSpain. Investigators are also looking at surveillance images to see if the incident was captured on camera.
CNN also has already rendered judgement in the matter:
Something about the photos:
Some are oriented this way:
Others this way:
FROM CBS NEWS WEBSITE
I don’t know why. Photos are often flipped or mirrored in the media for one reason or another. It certainly matters if THE BURNS ARE ON THE RIGHT SIDE of her face.
ALSO: Why are the media labeling her as bi-racial? A lot of people are bi-racial but the media always describes them as African-American or Black. Does the media feel strongly that she is a big fat liar, and they don’t want to later have to report that a “black woman” is guilty of a hate hoax? It sounds better if the hoax was perpetrated by a “bi-racial” woman.
Bubba Wallace is being referred to as a Black NASCAR driver. Why? Why not bi-racial?
Maybe the media doesn’t want to get boxed into admitting another black manipulated them, like Smollet or Bubba. The public has seen too many of these hoaxes, and they are becoming wise or skeptical or both. The left will keep trying to stoke the fires of fake hate crimes, but the veneer has worn thin and the dirty truth is now being exposed.
*Vaporizing alcohol. Popular with the college crowd. Maybe?