IN THE NEWS: HATE ATTACK MEDIA TRIED TO LINK TO VP'S WIFE WAS A HOAX

Why it is important to take a deep breath first before reporting alleged hate crimes....

Sixth-Grade Girl Admits To Fabricating Hate Attack That Media Linked To Mike Pence’s Wife, School Says...An alleged anti-black hate incident at a Washington, D.C.-area middle school that media outlets tried to link to Vice President Mike Pence’s wife was a hoax, the school said Monday. Amari Allen, 12, accused three white classmates earlier in September of pinning her down and cutting off her dreadlocks during an attack at Immanuel Christian School, a private school in Springfield, Virginia.“They said my hair was nappy and I was ugly,” Allen, a sixth-grader, told NBC Washington in an emotional interview. The story received national attention not just because of the attack, but also because the school has a high-profile faculty member: Karen Pence. READ MORE AT https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/30/sixth-grade-hate-attack-hair-pence/

YOU MAY ALSO HAVE AN INTEREST IN....MANHATTAN INSTITUTE: HATE CRIME HOAXES ARE MORE COMMON THAN YOU THINK....A political scientist found that fewer than 1 in 3 of 346 such allegations was genuine.

Jason L. Riley The Wall Street Journal, June 26, 2019

When I asked Wilfred Reilly about last week’s appointment of a special prosecutor in Chicago to take up the Jussie Smollett case, he was cautiously optimistic. Mr. Reilly is author of a new book, “Hate Crime Hoax,” in which he details how the initial publicity for supposed hate crimes tends all but to disappear if the allegations are exposed as fake.

So does the sustained press coverage of Mr. Smollett—the television actor who was accused of staging an attack on himself back in January, only to have all 16 felony counts against him abruptly dropped for reasons that prosecutors have never made clear—represent progress of sorts? READ MORE HERE. 

2021 UPDATE: SMOLLET GUILTY  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2021/12/in-news-smollett-guilty-ny-post-opinion.html