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Speaker 1: I want to welcome everyone back to part four of

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my reading of Crying Wolf Hate crime Hoaxes in America

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by Laird Wilcox. Quick reminder about Thomas and I doing

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movie reviews, watching movies, commenting on them. If you go

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to my website Freemanbeyond the Wall dot com forward slash movies,

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you see all the movies that we've recorded and how

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you can access them. All right, I'm going to jump

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into chapter five, and we may not get through this one.

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This is a long chapter, kind of strange, but considering

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the first heading is blacks, so yep, here we go

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Chapter five. By far the largest number of hoax incidents

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involved black victims and non black, usually white offenders. This

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is true both on the campus and in the community.

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The most common motive is to capitalize on the psychological

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benefits of victimization or to promote a specific personal, social,

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or political agenda, but other motives, such as insurance fraud

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and attempts to cover up other crimes, are not uncommon.

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Some hoaxes are simple pranks they got out of hand,

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but the majority involved some degree of planning and deliberate organization.

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New heading cases he already touched on this one, but

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it's a good one to come back to. I remember

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this one clearly. In November nineteen eighty seven, a black

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Wappinger's Falls, New York teenager, Tawana Brawley, claimed to have

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been kidnapped for several days, raped by white men, smeared

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with dog feces, placed in a plastic garbage bag, and

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marked with racial slurs. The case quickly became a cause

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celeb with editorials, marches, and politicians and media personalities deploring

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the incident and the racist climate that obviously led to it.

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Revenel sharped, and a black activist with a shady background,

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became spokesman for the Brawley family and insisted that justice

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be done and the white men responsible be prose prosecuted.

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The incident fueled support for hate crime legislation around the

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nation as the case was reported nightly on network news. Yeah.

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I was living in Florida at the time, and it

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was on the news every damn night. Tawana Braley and

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her handler's basted and nationwide attention and acquired victim status

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on a scale rarely seen. Discrepancies in her story were

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evident from the very beginning, a claim that she had

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been raped and brutalized by three white police officers, quickly

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fizzled out under examination. A detailed investigation determined that she

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was seen by friends during the period she said she

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was held captive, and that she spent much of this

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time in an apartment previously rented by her family. Other

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elements of her story were gradually eliminated one by one,

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and police subsequently reported that the Braley case was a

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massive fabrication and hoax. What made the Broadly case outstanding

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was the incredible media feeding frenzy that took place. Although

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there was reason for skepticism, virtually from the beginning, newspaper

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and television media were slow to pick up on the

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implausible nature of the allegations. Only at newspaper and television media.

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They were slow to pick up on it. They didn't

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want to pick up on it. They wanted to capitalize

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on it for several reasons. It just doesn't have to

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be one reason, ever, for anything, it's several reasons. Only

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after the doubt was substantial and clearly pointing in the

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direction of a hoax was the public informed. New York

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Post columnist Eric Brindell commented that radical attorney William Kuntler

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had said, concerning the Brawley case, it makes no difference

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any more whether the attack on Tijuana really happened. A

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lot of black women are treated the way she says

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she was treated. A lot of black women are kidnapped

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by police, held in apartments mirrored with dog FECs, raped

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over and over again, and put in a garbage back.

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Is that what William Hunseler would have us believe. Three

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years after the case broke, the Brawley matter was still

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being litigated. According to news reports, a county prosecutor was

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defamed by a black teenager who falsely claimed he was

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one of six white men who abducted and raped her.

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A judge rule State Supreme Court Judge Ralph Binzzer ruled

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Tuesday that Tawana Brawley intentionally inflicted emotional distress on Stephen Pagoni's,

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a former assistant district attorney for Dutchess County. A special

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grand jury cleared mister Pagonis of any involvement in the

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Brawley case and concluded miss Brawley fabricated the story. As

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the Barley incident was capturing headlines and Wappinger falls twenty

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five miles away in Kingston, New York, another racial hate

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crime hoax was brewing. Police had discovered the nude body

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of nineteen year old Anna Kithcart, a black woman who

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had been strangled, beaten, and killed on Both eyes were

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carved the initials KKK, an obvious reference to the Ku

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Klux Klan. The community was shocked and it seemed clear

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that malignant racism had once again struck an innocent black person,

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but not for long. Within days, police investigation focused on

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Jeffrey Allen Dawson, a twenty nine year old black man

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with a criminal record. Dawson was arrested after he made

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incriminating statements about the murder to a wired undercover policeman.

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Kingston Police Department sources said the murder was apparently drug

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were related. As for alleged KKK connection, Ulster County District

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Attorney Michael Kavanaugh said, nothing would lead us to believe

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that this murder was committed by members of any racial

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hate group such as a KKK. Interestingly, two Brawley Family advisors,

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Reverend al Sharpton and Alton Maddox Junior, got on the

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bandwagon in this case. Too sharp denomatics were soon conducting

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their own investigation in the slag set Maddox. I believe

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it was a racially motivated crime. Yeah, it was, but

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not in the way you're talking about. October nineteen ninety one,

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two crossburnings reported South Seattle, Washington. The first cross was

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thirty inches tall, the second cross never actually ignited. Aaron Briggs,

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one of the victims, said, it makes me sad that

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we have not come as far as I thought we

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had come. Predictably, the KKK style crossburning sent a shock

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through the community. Sensitivities were raised, racism was deplored, and

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anti racist forces were energized. Three months later, the monster

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was captured. Unlike most other cases where the culprit is

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vilified and condemned and wearing no excuse whatsoever, we'll do,

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the case was reported with kindness and understanding and with

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a charity and compassion unusual in stories of racist criminals.

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Here's why. When they heard the confession of a troubled

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sixteen year old who admitted he was behind a string

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of cross burnings and racial vandalism against black people in

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southern Seattle, police were stunned and saddened. The youth, who

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also is black, told police he committed the acts of

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vandalism to create fear that would attract the media. Captain

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Douglas Dills, who heads the police section that investigates malicious

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harassment or hate crimes, said it appears as the youth

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had a fascination with both national and local media coverage

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of racism and racial incidents. The teenager is not only

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under super suspicion in a string of malicious harassment crimes,

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but in several arsons as well. You know what that

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tells me. That tells me that he's a victim because

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he had to watch all of that and see it.

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The newspaper also reported that the youth might have been

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inspired by a Phil Donna Hugh TV show the day

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before about hate crimes. According to police, the arrest cleared

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up a large number of unsolved cases of allegedly racially

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motivated crimes in the community, all registered in the statistics

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kept by anti racist groups. One of the most convoluted

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and bizarre hate crime hoaxes was exposed in Portland, Oregon,

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in October nineteen ninety two. Hoaxes can be very elaborate

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and almost always requires some degree of planning, but the

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case of Azalea Cooley forty, a black lesbian, involved a

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series of misrepresentations, distortions, and outright lies covering up to

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eight covering up to eight years, including false claims of

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disability that left her wheelchair bound and a bogus racial

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harassment that began as far back as nineteen eighty five,

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when she allegedly received death threats. In nineteen eighty three,

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Cooley moved in with Susan Soewen, whom she had been

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dating since nineteen eighty one. Wow took that long. In

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nineteen eighty six, she claimed she had been diagnosed with

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cancer and quit her job as a corrections officer. So

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also a corrections officer, continued to live together and were

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active in community politics. I am completely shocked by that.

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The most recent reports of racial harassment began on May third,

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nineteen ninety two, when racist graffiti was painted on Coulian

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Sone's house. Following that the word en was painted on

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the house, a note card with Hitler lives death to

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all ends was found on the doorstep, and a swastika

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with the words burn and burn was written on Cooley's

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wheelchair ramp. Over a period of week some seventeen hate

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crimes incidents occurred, none of which police were able to solve.

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Hitler lives death to all in someone point to any

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evidence that Hitler had any problem with black people, check

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some of his quotes about them. Coolian Son turned to

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the local anti bigotry coalition to counsel them through the ordeal,

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the Metropolitan Human Rights Coalition. And when I say had

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a problem with him that he wanted to see them

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destroyed or dead or anything like that, he I mean,

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having opinions is not the same as, oh, they should

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all be punishers in some sort of way. Cole and

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Sone turned to the local anti bigotry coalitions to counsel

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them through the ordeal. The Metropolitan Human Rights Coalition set

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up a special hotline to receive tips on the perpetrators.

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Police questioned several suspected skinheads and neo Nazis, and even

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arrested one man who was seen watching the cross burning

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Cooley's yard, but later said they didn't believe he was responsible.

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Azalea Cooley became, to paraphrase a local journalist, a poster

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child for Portland's victimized classes, i e. The black, handicapped,

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and gay lesbian communities. She reveled in her victimhood and

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eagerly accepted the role of a martyr. On Sunday, November first,

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nineteen ninety two, she helped lead a rally and march

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named to take a Stand against Hate reportland I thought

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she couldn't stand or walk. Photos of Cooley being pushed

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in her wheel show oh yep, at the head of

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the march were widely publicized. There's just something about that.

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She became a symbol of the fight against bigotry and

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prejudice on a grand scale. On the very morning of

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the march, someone set fire to a cross on Cooley's lawn,

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unbeknown to Coolian Zone. However, this time police cameras recorded

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the incident. That same evening, police arrived and searched to

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cooley Cone residence. They said they found items in the

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house consistent with materials used in the cross burning. The

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videotape showed that the person who let the cross had

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come from inside the house. Susan Zone, who had filed

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the original hate crime complaints, was served with a warrant

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for initiating a false police report, a class misdemeanor. She

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was placed on administrative suspension at the Moltnomah County Jail,

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where she had been a line supervisor for fifteen years.

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No charges were filed against Cooley at that time. Scott Lively,

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spokesman for the Oregon Citizens Alliance, a group opposing special

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civil rights protections for homosexuals known as ballot Measure number nine,

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responded to the arrest. He said, this indicates our position

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that the No On nine campaign has been basing their

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position on fraud. I think there is high emotion on

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both sides, but when a black, crippled woman in a

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wheelchair starts burning crosses in her own yard, it's fraud

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in a sad day for the community. I think it

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exposes what we have been saying all along. On November twentieth,

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nineteen ninety two, The Oregonian Portland Daily reported that Azalia

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Cooley had confessed to staging the cross burnings, death threats,

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and vandalism. Coley admitted that the hate crimes that happened

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at our home were my doing. In June nineteen ninety three,

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federal Judge Helen J. Frye placed Coolly on two years

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probation for lying to an FBI agent. She was also

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ordered to spend four months House arrest. The charges against Sewen,

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who had filed a defamation lawsuit against sheriff's officers involved

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in the investigation, were still pending at the time of

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this writing. How was Cooley able to fool so many

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people for so long? Rachel Zimmerman, writing in Willamette Week,

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a Portland weekly, noted Coley fooled so many so fully

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because she was seen as the ultimate victim, an African

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American lesbian, wheelchair bound and dying of brain cancer, haunted

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by an anonymous bigot. In hindsight, there were a number

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of signs suggesting the attacks were a hoax, but those

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who came to Coolies aid were blinded either by naivete,

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by their own abhorrence of racism, or by the temptation

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to hold such a victim up as a symbol, even

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a martyr in nineteen ninety. Curtis leewa founder of the

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multiracial and quasi vigilante Guardian Angels organization, claimed in nineteen

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eighty that three New York City transit officers abducted him,

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drove him around, and threatened him in order to force

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his organizations to end subway patrols. He also claimed that

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someone painted KKK in white power outside the group's headquarters.

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The organization, founded by Sili Went nineteen seventy eight, had

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acquired a reputation for sensationalism and as publicity seeking. As

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slee what puts it. We were just little people trying

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to get recognition for doing good work. In November nineteen

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ninety two, Sleewa admitted that the kidnapping, the KKK graffiti,

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and other events were in fact faked. He remarked that

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the constant media attention played a part in the deceptions.

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It became like an intoxicant, a narcotic, he said early

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life on SLIWA. Three men and a youth, all black,

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were arrested in August nineteen ninety in connection with three

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cross burnings in Prince George's County, Maryland. Ross Farewell eighteen,

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Gerald Simmons twenty and Reginald Stewart twenty one, and the

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juvenile were charged with the offenses. According to Captain Ron

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Serniki of the County Fire Department, a homeowner in the

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forest View section of the community discovered the cross burning

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in the front yard about three am after a brick

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was hurled through the living room window earlier. Three black

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uths had jokingly donned white sheets and set fire to

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a cross in front of a friend's house in the

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ninety five hundred block of Castle Drive in Forestville. The

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friend came out to see what was going on and

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then joined the trio as they went on. Captain Siernarchi

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sier Nikki went on to minimalize hate crime aspects of

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the incident, claiming that the act wasn't racially or religiously motivated.

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They were just being crazy. I guess something that just

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got at a hand. Can't dismiss the stuff. In Lawrence,

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home of the University of Kansas, a small cross was

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burned and KKKA was spray painted in several buildings in

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Lawrence neighborhoods. In October nineteen ninety, police determined that the

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culprit were probably juveniles. The two foot high cross was

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made from pieces of wood taken from a discarded sofa,

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tied together with fabric from the sofa, wedged against the

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ground in building and set a fire. The Edgewood Home

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Tenants Association held an emergency meeting last week to express anxiety.

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It's terrible because so many people are afraid, said fifteen

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year resident Francis Moore, sixty three years old. In another case,

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across was burned in front of an all white fraternity

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near the University of Kansas, accompanied by a note containing

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anti Ye comments. Militant anti racists have been active in

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the Lawrence community and at the university. In Angela Davis,

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a former member of the Central Committee of the Communist

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Party USA, and militant anti racist activists, had recently spoken

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at KU. Other suspected hoaxes have occurred. What makes the

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Lawrence case interesting is that obvious hoaxes were treated as

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bona fide incidents by the media, which in turn encourages hoaxers,

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which I saw. Eagle writer Dave Hendrick wrote a lengthy

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article entitled Racial tensions Taint Lawrence's Image, never mentioning that

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the cross burnings and graffiti were hoaxes. He did note

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that reports about the cross burnings and graffiti had been

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filed from Clan Watch, a division of the Southern Poverty

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Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. These fake hate incidents may

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become part of the statistic state issue periodically. An unnamed

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black teenager in Queens, New York told the authorities that

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a white man had set him on fire. News reports

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of December nineteen eighty six noted that police at first

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believed the account reported it as a third racial attack

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in Queens in a week, but when detectives found inconsistencies

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to fifteen year old and three of his friends admitted

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the fabrication. Police said the youth had accidentally burned himself

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by letting gasoline in a fireplace. That's just Darwin. He

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fabricated the story in order to avoid punishment and gain sympathy.

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In Bensalem, Pennsylvania, albert A Dawson, a twenty eight year

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old black man, was arrested in charge with ethnic intimidation

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in February nineteen eighty four for allegedly setting crosses a

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fire on the lawns of four interracial couples. At the

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time of the incidents, it was believed that the offenses

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were committed by white racists. One of the couples, Floyd Darden,

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thirty three, who was black, and his wife Janet, who

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was white, woke up with a burned cross in their yard.

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The fact that these black brings a totally different dimensions

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to the thing, Darden said. Another family living directly across

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the street from Dawson consisted of a young black woman

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who recently married a white man. Another interracial couple also victimized,

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lived two blocks away. Dawson, twenty eight, was freed about

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was freed after posting ten percent of his fifty thousand

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dollars bail. Alan Rubinstein assistant Dicktatric, attorney, said that the

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cross burning certainly was a racially most motivated incident. Had

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Dawson not been apprehended, the image of the KKK or

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neo Nazi skinheads would have remained in the public mind

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concerning the incident. As we have seen, even law enforcement

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officers are not immune from racial hoaxes. A Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

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police officer was charged in March nineteen eighty eight with

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writing an anti black slur on a six foot banner

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and a District Police station. Police patrolman, Ross Barnes, a

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fourteen year veteran who is black, confessed to the act. Apparently,

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Barnes was attempting to inject racism as an issue in

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the transfer of officers within the department. Ronald Oliver, president

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of the one thousand member Guardian Civic League, Philadelphia's minority

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police organization, said for a black person to do that

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is beyond my capacity. That point leads me wondering. One

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of the most widely publicized cases of terroristic bombing in

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US history, blamed on racists and occurring on the very

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eve of a Congressional vote on hate crimes responding reporting

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legislation in December nineteen eighty nine, contains the elements of

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a planned deception. Newspapers and television throughout the nation spoke

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of the connection between the series of letter bombs which

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resulted in the murder of a US district judge and

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a lawyer who had handled civil rights cases, and they

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claimed right and the claimed rising tide of racially motivated

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hate crimes. The incidents proved useful in promoting the agenda

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the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Democratic Renewal.

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Both organizations attempted to link the bombings to right wing

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racial extremists. As an early suspect in the mail bombing

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of U S District Court Judge Robert Vance and attorney

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Robert Robinson, Wayne O'Farrell of Enterprise Alabama proved a dead end.

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Hundreds of federal agents descended upon O'Farrell's home and salvage

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store in a prolonged, detailed investigation that was covered daily

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in the national media. Nevertheless, investigators failed to find any

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conclusive evidence linking him with the bombings. When O'Farrell was

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under investigation, he sold t shirts to tourists as souvenirs

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and had his photo taken with visitors to his store.

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Dotty Lee Snow, a relative of Hank Snow, recorded a

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song attribute to Robert Wayne O'Farrell, which he sold cassette

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tapes of for five dollars each. Several months later, federal

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agents arrested Walter Leroy Moody on several unrelated charges. Moody,

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who had been convicted for bomb possession in nineteen seventy two.

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Moody had been convicted for bomb possession in nineteen seventy two.

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Moody had turned out had been a suspect almost from

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the beginning. Federal agents had focused on O'Farrell as a

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diversion in In an attempt to throw investigator's office trail, Moody

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included racist commentary in his letters to various media to

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create the false impression that the bombings were racially motivated,

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when in fact they were not. According to news reports,

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mister Moody has no history of racial animis in Both

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his brother and Michael Bergan, a former Moody lawyer who

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married a black woman, said they believed that if race

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was behind the mail bombs, they would be surprised if

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mister Moody would be involved. Moody became a suspect shortly

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after O'Farrell did, although federal agents did not divulge this

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fack to the media. In fact, federal agents were watching

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Moody almost two weeks before highly publicized searches of O'Farrell's

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premises took place. The focus on owd farrell kept the

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issue up in the air, and newspapers around the country

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speculated on what seemed an obvious racist motivation behind the crime.

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Full public attentions to Moody would have exposed a total

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absence of racial motivation. There was no law enforcement need

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for the o faral deception, for Moody knew he was

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a suspect as soon as he was placed under surveillance

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early in the investigation. The federal agents were not particularly surreptitious,

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said Moody's attorney, while Michael Haupman, adding that Moody was

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under constant surveillance from early January until his arrest in

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July on unrelated charges. Agents made their headquarters a convenience

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store down the street from Moody's home and followed Moody

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while wearing jackets with FBI printed on the back. The

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hate crime angle was allowed to percolate through public consciousness

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for eleven months, including the period when hate crime reporting

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legislation was before Congress, which subsequently passed. Moody was apparently

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kept under surveillance to be arrested at the appropriate time.

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On June twenty eighth, nineteen ninety one, Moody was found

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guilty on all seventy one counts related to the bombings.

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During During his trial, federal prosecutors conceded that his motives

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were devoid of any racial considerations. Prosecutor said that Moody

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was obsessed with his failure to get his nineteen seventy

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two conviction for possessing a bomb overturned, leave a criminal

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record that prevented him from attaining a dream of his

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dream of practicing law. Moody blamed the KKK for the bombings.

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In July nineteen eighty seven, Portsmouth, Virginia black community leaders

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began receiving vitriolic racist hate mail, including obscenities, racist remarks

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and threats. Calls for actioning as the white hate group,

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were demanded. It was cited as one more example of

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the rising tide of hate crimes. The incident took a

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dramatic turn when a police investigation found that fingerprints on

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the letters belonged to James W. Holly Third, the city's

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first black mayor, who denied the charges and claimed that

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he had been framed. Fortunately for Holly, at the time

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of the incident, there were no hate crime statutes, so

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he wasn't charged with a criminal act, and all some

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thirty letters directed to eight individuals, all but one of

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them black leaders in the community, had been mailed. The

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mayor's fingerprints were on file with federal authorities because of

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a nineteen seventy three assault charge, of which he was acquitted.

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Tests showed copies of newspapers contained in the mailings were

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made by the copier on the sixth floor of the

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city Hall, where the mayor had his office. Five months later,

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voters held a recall election. In fifty seven points seven

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percent of the elector had voted to retired the sixty

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year old dentist and longtime civil rights leader. Howy continued

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to maintain that he had been framed. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin,

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a black city aldermen initiated a hoax in June nineteen

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ninety that nearly put one hundred year old meat company

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out of business. Alderman Michael McGhee, who had recently formed

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a black paramilitary group called the Black Panther Militia, charged

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a sausage packed by white owned usinger's family. The Sausage

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Incorporated was tainted with rat poison. McGhee said the militant

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African Underground Squad was responsible when the company recalled eighty

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pounds of meat from one hundred and fifty stores. An

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examination found none of the meat tainted, according to news reports.

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Milwaukee Mayor John o'norquist and others said they believe McGhee's

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story was fabricated because the aldermen brought the warning to

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news media instead of reporting to it immediately to police.

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It's a hoax, it's phony, Norquist charge. What he's really

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doing is scaring the hell out of people, which feeds

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racism and bigotry. The controversy arose when a group of

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businessmen opposed a McGee sponsored bills to rename a city

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street after Martin Luther King Junior. A portion of the

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street in question is already named for him. The businessman

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opposed renaming the rest of the street, saying the change

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would inconvenience their businesses. Letters appearing to be of KKK

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origin exhorting Blacks to continue killing each other circulated in

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Washington for a several week period of nineteen ninety one.

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Entitled a salute to all gangbangers. The letters thanks black

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gang members for having killed over four thousand black since

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nineteen seventy five. The letters read, keep killing each other

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for nothing. You are killing each other for our property.

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You are killing that what could be future black doctors, lawyers,

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and businessmen that we won't have to compete with. And

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the good thing about it is that you are killing

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the youth. One edited version was printed in the Washington

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Afro American newspaper. Observers noted that one version of the

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letter misspells the name of the klu klux klus Klan

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Clucks with a s. Washington, DC talk show host Robert

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Breeden said on WPGC radio, I don't think the letter

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is from the Klan, but it should give those who

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are involved in black on black violence something to think about.

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I think the letter was written by some black person who,

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like myself, is fed up with the violence and is

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trying to do whatever it takes to get through to

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these young people. In Brooklyn, New York, a sixteen year

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old teenager said he said she had been the victim

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of a racial hate crime at the hands of two

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seventeen year old white ewes as she was walking on

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a city street late one Sunday evening. According to police

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Sergeant Adel James, they yelled ethnic slurs and said she

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didn't belong there. They went through her purse, removed lipstick,

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ripped their blouse, and smeared lipstick on her chest and neck.

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Then they struck her in the face and fled the scene.

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The teenager was taken to Coney Island Hospital, where she

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was treated by physicians and released, according to news reports.

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Four days later, on October third, nineteen ninety two, newspapers

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reported that the teenager had recanceed her story. It didn't happen,

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said Captain William Plackenmeier. She was looking for sympathy from

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her boyfriend and made up a story police investigators began

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to suspect the hoax when important elements of her story

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didn't check out. In the meanwhile, New York Mayor David

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Dinkins excited the case as an example of hate crime

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to illustrate the need for estate anti bias laws. David Dinkins,

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I mean New York has had some prized mayors. I'm

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being facetious. Dinkins took the cake. He was replaced by

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Rudy Giuliani, who as much of a scumbag as he

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would become, and now he seems to I don't know,

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trying to redo his image or something like that. Juliani

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did clean up the city. It only took building an

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army and putting an army on the streets in order

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to do it, which is I think if you're gonna

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have multicultural society, that's the way you're gonna have to

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do it. You're just gonna have to have an overwhelming

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police presence that's ready to shoot anybody that gets out

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of line. Also, being able to drive up property prices

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helps a lot, rent rent prices, things like that. Yep,

471
00:28:56,119 --> 00:28:59,559
not that I condone that, but I don't condone living

472
00:28:59,599 --> 00:29:08,480
in city either. So hate crime hoaxes are sometimes used

473
00:29:08,480 --> 00:29:11,480
to cover up crimes, to draw attention away from criminal activity,

474
00:29:11,759 --> 00:29:14,319
or to create a victim cover for an individual fearing

475
00:29:14,359 --> 00:29:18,839
discovery and criminal prosecution. Deron Birdsong and the sixteen year

476
00:29:18,880 --> 00:29:21,279
old black youth testified in May nineteen eighty eight that

477
00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:23,759
David Price, and eighteen year old black man, was shot

478
00:29:23,759 --> 00:29:26,200
and killed by Carlottle, white men who were yelling racial

479
00:29:26,240 --> 00:29:30,720
epithets while driving through a Louisville, Kentucky neighborhood. Police Chief

480
00:29:30,759 --> 00:29:33,440
Bobby Crouch described the shooting as a racial hate crime.

481
00:29:33,759 --> 00:29:37,319
The charges rocketed through the Louisville, Kentucky community and quickly

482
00:29:37,319 --> 00:29:40,920
brought calls for justice and an end to white racist terrorism.

483
00:29:42,039 --> 00:29:45,519
There were problems with this account, however, Police showed that

484
00:29:45,559 --> 00:29:47,519
Price had been shot from a distance of three to

485
00:29:47,599 --> 00:29:50,720
six feet away, not thirty or forty feet away as

486
00:29:50,720 --> 00:29:53,599
birds On had testified. Also, it was learned that Price

487
00:29:53,680 --> 00:29:56,799
was a drug dealer. Later, in September nineteen eighty eight

488
00:29:56,839 --> 00:30:00,200
in federal court, Birdsong recanceled his previous story in testiify

489
00:30:00,279 --> 00:30:02,720
that Price was shot in the back by Keith Pointer,

490
00:30:03,160 --> 00:30:05,640
a seventeen year old black youth and fellow drug dealer.

491
00:30:05,799 --> 00:30:10,279
According to news reports, while police still believed there was

492
00:30:10,319 --> 00:30:12,319
a carload of men yelling at blacks in the area,

493
00:30:12,359 --> 00:30:14,599
they now believed Price, who was black, may have been

494
00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:19,119
shot accidentally. No shots were fired from the alleged carload

495
00:30:19,160 --> 00:30:23,160
to whites. This was a fiction, Birdsong, originally concocted to

496
00:30:23,200 --> 00:30:28,680
protect Pointer. Birdsong, stuck with the fabrication during four statements

497
00:30:28,680 --> 00:30:31,319
to the FBI, finally told his mother to call police,

498
00:30:31,319 --> 00:30:35,720
and he told them what had actually happened. Heavy smoke

499
00:30:35,759 --> 00:30:38,200
poured from the west wing of the Manor Baptist Church

500
00:30:38,240 --> 00:30:43,160
and School in San Leandro, California, in September nineteen ninety two,

501
00:30:43,240 --> 00:30:46,799
destroying the church officers and damaging the library. Police and

502
00:30:46,839 --> 00:30:50,039
fire investigators initially believed the arson was a racially motivated

503
00:30:50,039 --> 00:30:52,559
hate crime. Graffiti was sprayed on the walls before the

504
00:30:52,640 --> 00:30:57,599
church doused with kerosene and gasoline and set a fire.

505
00:30:58,079 --> 00:31:02,480
Almost immediately, though, attention shifted to Sean Reagan, thirty, former

506
00:31:02,519 --> 00:31:05,279
principal of the church, school and church treasurer. He had

507
00:31:05,279 --> 00:31:08,559
been accused of embezzling twenty thousand in church funds. Reagan

508
00:31:08,640 --> 00:31:12,079
had resigned from his post in June nineteen ninety two.

509
00:31:14,359 --> 00:31:17,400
The reason, according to church officials, was his poor performance.

510
00:31:18,079 --> 00:31:21,559
Reagan told investigators that he sprayed the graffiti to make

511
00:31:21,599 --> 00:31:24,519
them think the arson was racially motivated. According to San

512
00:31:24,559 --> 00:31:28,640
Leandro Police Lieutenant James o'meira, part of Reagan's motive was

513
00:31:28,680 --> 00:31:32,240
emotional revenge and anger toward the people, and fearful that

514
00:31:32,279 --> 00:31:37,200
he was going to be exposed. In July nineteen ninety one,

515
00:31:37,279 --> 00:31:40,440
seventy three year old Helen Kluel, who lived alone in

516
00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:43,720
an upper East Side building, was found stabbed, beaten, and

517
00:31:43,720 --> 00:31:46,920
strangled in her apartment. According to news reports, the police,

518
00:31:47,160 --> 00:31:51,119
after finding a note in missus Kluell's apartment that contained

519
00:31:51,160 --> 00:31:55,200
references to the KK and Rachel and ethnic slurs, classified

520
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,839
the killing as a bias incident, but Captain William Rowe,

521
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,039
the commander of the fourth to TIX Detective's Division, said

522
00:32:01,079 --> 00:32:03,359
the police had been unable to link the contents of

523
00:32:03,400 --> 00:32:05,839
the notes of the crime. A few days later, police

524
00:32:05,839 --> 00:32:08,480
had their culprit in custody. The note, which read KKK

525
00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:13,200
hates Jews, ends and Spies, had apparently been written by

526
00:32:13,279 --> 00:32:16,920
Charlo Charles Acasio, a Hispanic who lived with his mother

527
00:32:17,319 --> 00:32:20,559
on the same floor. As the victim. Police detective Joseph

528
00:32:20,559 --> 00:32:24,079
Barrell observed that the apartment house is a very secure building.

529
00:32:24,200 --> 00:32:26,839
He said, most of the investigators that had got feeling

530
00:32:26,839 --> 00:32:28,480
it was someone who lived in the building or had

531
00:32:28,519 --> 00:32:30,839
access to it. The note was intended to kind of

532
00:32:30,839 --> 00:32:36,440
throw us off the track. It just didn't fit. Albany,

533
00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:40,759
Oregon's mayor Jean Bellhumer, reported to police in June nineteen

534
00:32:40,839 --> 00:32:42,400
ninety three that he had been the victim of a

535
00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:45,319
racial hate crime. Belle Humor is white, his wife and

536
00:32:45,440 --> 00:32:49,759
children from her previous marriage were black. His seventeen year

537
00:32:49,799 --> 00:32:52,200
old son awakened him with the story. The two boys

538
00:32:52,200 --> 00:32:54,279
had flattened three of the tires on the family car

539
00:32:54,279 --> 00:32:56,920
and stole a hood ornament. A racial hate note was

540
00:32:56,920 --> 00:32:59,400
attached to the windshield, which made the defense a hate

541
00:32:59,400 --> 00:33:03,279
crime under law. Police were looking for two teenagers. However,

542
00:33:03,319 --> 00:33:06,240
when they interrogated Belle Humor's son the next day, the

543
00:33:06,279 --> 00:33:09,680
boy admitted to police having fabricated the hate crime story.

544
00:33:09,759 --> 00:33:13,240
After driving the car into a ditch and flattening three tires,

545
00:33:16,519 --> 00:33:19,240
three black youths on a bicycle stealing spree in June

546
00:33:19,279 --> 00:33:21,480
nineteen ninety one claimed to have been attacked by a

547
00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:24,400
group of white men before they were apprehended by police

548
00:33:24,400 --> 00:33:28,720
in Cleveland, Ohio. So three black youths were stealing bikes

549
00:33:29,440 --> 00:33:36,279
on a spree and they were just attacked. At the

550
00:33:36,279 --> 00:33:38,519
time of the theft. Police were called, who chased and

551
00:33:38,519 --> 00:33:42,599
apprehended five blackhthes. Four others got away. Cleveland Police Sergeant

552
00:33:42,640 --> 00:33:45,640
Patrick Reynolds said they had fabricated the story to conceteal

553
00:33:45,680 --> 00:33:48,960
these their crimes. The blacks were among a larger group

554
00:33:49,640 --> 00:33:52,759
who had previously stolen bicycles from the same bike shop.

555
00:33:53,119 --> 00:33:56,039
When they returned to the bike shop, and employee, thinking

556
00:33:56,039 --> 00:33:58,039
they were going to make a second attempt, ran out

557
00:33:58,079 --> 00:34:01,160
after them. The fabricated account the attack by white men

558
00:34:01,279 --> 00:34:04,640
was easily debunked in this instance, according to Cleveland Prosecutor

559
00:34:04,680 --> 00:34:07,400
Mark McLain, after the police sought to everyone, it was

560
00:34:07,440 --> 00:34:13,519
clear there was no racially motivated attack. A fourteen year

561
00:34:13,519 --> 00:34:15,320
old black teenager claimed they had been shot in a

562
00:34:15,400 --> 00:34:19,719
racially motivated drive by shooting near clear Lake, California, in

563
00:34:19,800 --> 00:34:22,920
July nineteen eighty eight. This raised the consciousness of the

564
00:34:22,920 --> 00:34:25,719
community to the issue of hate crimes in related matters.

565
00:34:26,079 --> 00:34:30,760
One month later, however, clear Lake police Chief Robert Pseudo,

566
00:34:32,239 --> 00:34:34,880
reported that the black youth admitted that he had accidentally

567
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:37,119
shot himself in the hand with a revolver he claimed

568
00:34:37,119 --> 00:34:39,480
to have found in a park. No hate crime had

569
00:34:39,480 --> 00:34:43,719
ever occurred in Akron, Ohio to black teenagers reported in

570
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:45,800
March eighteen eighty nine that a car load of white

571
00:34:45,840 --> 00:34:48,679
youths had beaten them. The attack had occurred as they

572
00:34:48,679 --> 00:34:51,559
were walking along a city street. They said the white

573
00:34:51,599 --> 00:34:54,719
youths began taunting them and then attacked them. Both boys

574
00:34:54,760 --> 00:34:57,320
suffered facial injuries, and the fourteen year old's jaw was

575
00:34:57,320 --> 00:35:00,280
broken in four places and fourteenth had been knocked doubt.

576
00:35:02,639 --> 00:35:06,880
I mean, this is just this story is always the reverse.

577
00:35:09,880 --> 00:35:14,000
When when do you ever if you can name one

578
00:35:14,119 --> 00:35:17,599
case where white youths drove by and started taunting and

579
00:35:17,599 --> 00:35:20,360
then jumped out and started beating some black kids just

580
00:35:20,360 --> 00:35:23,400
for no reason other than their black you're proven my point.

581
00:35:24,679 --> 00:35:28,440
When does this ever happen? If this happens all the time,

582
00:35:28,519 --> 00:35:31,000
we'd be talking about that all the time. It'd be

583
00:35:31,039 --> 00:35:34,440
on the news every fucking night. The day of the attack,

584
00:35:34,519 --> 00:35:37,039
police began investigating the theft of a nineteen seventy nine

585
00:35:37,159 --> 00:35:40,079
Chevrolet from a parking lot. Police discovered that the attacked

586
00:35:40,079 --> 00:35:42,280
black teenagers had stolen the car and wrecked it when

587
00:35:42,280 --> 00:35:44,800
the sixteen year old drove into a poll. The facial

588
00:35:44,800 --> 00:35:47,800
injuries were apparently caused by the accident. They were charged

589
00:35:47,800 --> 00:35:50,519
with receiving stolen property and making a false police report.

590
00:35:51,440 --> 00:35:54,599
In August of nineteen eighty eight, a biracial couple living

591
00:35:54,639 --> 00:35:58,280
in the Troy, New York Martin Luther King Apartments reported

592
00:35:58,320 --> 00:36:02,559
finding their apartment walls painted racial slurs in the initials KKK.

593
00:36:05,639 --> 00:36:08,920
Don Roe is white, her sixty three year old husband

594
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:14,000
Pleasant is black, and they have six children. I'm not

595
00:36:14,039 --> 00:36:17,639
even going to begin to ask questions about that. The

596
00:36:17,719 --> 00:36:20,320
couple reported that they had been to to what racial slurs,

597
00:36:20,320 --> 00:36:22,559
to the point that they often stayed inside with the

598
00:36:22,559 --> 00:36:26,400
curtains drawn. Police investigating the incident, however, told another story.

599
00:36:26,519 --> 00:36:30,199
Detective Robert Paul came to suspect that the victims had

600
00:36:30,239 --> 00:36:33,559
been feuding with someone. He said there had been no

601
00:36:33,639 --> 00:36:36,800
signs of fourth century neighbors had not noted anything unusual

602
00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:38,880
around the apartment at the time of the alleged hate crime.

603
00:36:39,239 --> 00:36:41,639
He noted that the housing complex is racially mixed and

604
00:36:41,639 --> 00:36:44,840
that biracial couples are not uncommon. There had been no

605
00:36:45,000 --> 00:36:49,320
other racial incidents there. Police declines to characterize the case

606
00:36:49,320 --> 00:36:51,679
as a hoax when pressed, but it was clear that

607
00:36:51,719 --> 00:36:55,760
there was suspicion that the KKK was not haunting the complex.

608
00:36:55,880 --> 00:37:00,119
After all, it had the potential to be an the

609
00:37:00,159 --> 00:37:04,079
Rodney King case. Four white Berkeley, California police officers were

610
00:37:04,079 --> 00:37:07,880
accused of beating, severely beating Ronald Griffin twenty five, a

611
00:37:07,960 --> 00:37:10,800
black man who had was taken to a local hospital

612
00:37:10,800 --> 00:37:13,320
with a broken upper and lower jaws and several teeth

613
00:37:13,400 --> 00:37:16,320
knocked out. A police officer identified by the victim as

614
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:19,320
the one primarily responsible for the May nineteen ninety two incident,

615
00:37:19,360 --> 00:37:22,199
was placed on administrative leave. According to Griffin, he had

616
00:37:22,199 --> 00:37:26,320
been walking along a Berkeley street when two officers pulled up,

617
00:37:26,360 --> 00:37:28,760
asked him to identify himself, and drove away. He said

618
00:37:28,760 --> 00:37:31,920
that He said that two squad cars came by later

619
00:37:32,480 --> 00:37:34,519
with two additional officers, put him in one of the

620
00:37:34,559 --> 00:37:37,920
cars and drove him to an unknown location, where he

621
00:37:38,000 --> 00:37:41,800
was handcuffed, beaten, beaten unconscious with a baton, and abandoned.

622
00:37:42,519 --> 00:37:47,440
The media initially sensationalized the case. However, It was soon

623
00:37:47,519 --> 00:37:50,159
learned that Griffin had been recently released from sam Quentin

624
00:37:50,239 --> 00:37:53,320
after serving four years for attempted murder and robbery. His

625
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:57,639
arrest record also included narcotics dealing, narcotics dealing, burglary, and

626
00:37:57,800 --> 00:38:01,639
auto theft. On several occasions, either fled or resisted arrest,

627
00:38:01,679 --> 00:38:03,719
and in one case almost ran his car into a

628
00:38:03,719 --> 00:38:07,320
patrol car. Four days later, lawyers for Griffin announced that

629
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:10,159
plans for a lawsuit against the policeman was dropped due

630
00:38:10,159 --> 00:38:13,719
to lack of supporting evidence. The police department interviewed all

631
00:38:13,760 --> 00:38:17,920
officers who were on duty when the alleged beating occurred

632
00:38:18,039 --> 00:38:21,079
and reviewed all radio transmissions during the period. After a

633
00:38:21,119 --> 00:38:24,400
thorough investigation, they announced that Griffin's account was a fabrication.

634
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:28,199
According to news reports, police here say they now have

635
00:38:28,360 --> 00:38:31,840
solid evidence that Richmond that the Richmond black man who

636
00:38:31,880 --> 00:38:33,920
was claimed that he was beaten up ten days ago

637
00:38:33,960 --> 00:38:36,599
by four white Berkeley cops made up the entire episodes

638
00:38:36,639 --> 00:38:40,599
of Coverer's involvement in a three city crime spree. Sources

639
00:38:40,599 --> 00:38:43,840
said police believe Griffin attempted to rob a drug dealer

640
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:47,119
and his jaw was broken when his victim hit him

641
00:38:47,199 --> 00:38:50,440
with a gun butt. Finally, as the hoax unraveled, it

642
00:38:50,480 --> 00:38:52,840
was learned that the day before Griffin made his charges

643
00:38:52,880 --> 00:38:56,199
against police, he was allegedly fired. He had allegedly fired

644
00:38:56,199 --> 00:38:59,320
a gun at a tenderloin dope dealer he was trying

645
00:38:59,320 --> 00:39:01,960
to hold up. The bullet hit and killed an innocent

646
00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:06,239
Mexican immigrant bystander. The gun recoiled, striking him in the jaw,

647
00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:12,519
which accounted for Griffin's injuries. How was he shooting? I'm

648
00:39:12,559 --> 00:39:15,960
not gonna say that. Griffin, along with a companion, was

649
00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:19,679
subsequently charged with murder, two armed robberies, and kar theft.

650
00:39:20,000 --> 00:39:22,039
He was returned to San Quentin Prison, where he was

651
00:39:22,079 --> 00:39:27,480
being held on parole violation. Reverend James Dixon, a black

652
00:39:27,519 --> 00:39:30,119
minister in Houston, Texas, had received a hate letter in

653
00:39:30,199 --> 00:39:33,400
January nineteen ninety two which said, boy, you are one

654
00:39:33,480 --> 00:39:36,159
trouble maker. What do you think we should do about this?

655
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:40,079
The words this is the Klan were printed in large letters,

656
00:39:40,119 --> 00:39:43,199
and an illustration of a klansman in robin hood was included.

657
00:39:43,800 --> 00:39:47,239
Media accounts said the letter contained several racist statements, like

658
00:39:47,320 --> 00:39:49,440
they had to draw a robin a hood because no

659
00:39:49,440 --> 00:39:55,239
one knows what the Klan would look like Charles Lee, Texas,

660
00:39:55,280 --> 00:39:58,000
Grand Dragon of the minuscule White Camellia Knights of the

661
00:39:58,079 --> 00:40:01,559
ku Klux Klan, denied his organization was involved. The letter

662
00:40:01,639 --> 00:40:04,360
might be a hoax to arouse publicity for Dixon. Li

663
00:40:04,519 --> 00:40:07,679
said that this kind of thing only brought notoriety and

664
00:40:07,760 --> 00:40:11,719
police harassment for the Klan. But a few days later

665
00:40:11,800 --> 00:40:15,079
another letter appeared, this one apologizing for the first one.

666
00:40:15,119 --> 00:40:16,559
The writer said he was not a member of the

667
00:40:16,639 --> 00:40:18,639
KKK and that he had intended the letter as a

668
00:40:18,719 --> 00:40:23,519
joke and apologized for the letter. Constable Jack Abercia said

669
00:40:23,559 --> 00:40:26,440
the author of the apology also wrote the original letter

670
00:40:26,559 --> 00:40:29,760
based upon similarities in the letters. By this time, the

671
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:33,119
copycaf phenomenon had kicked in, and yet another letter was received,

672
00:40:33,119 --> 00:40:35,760
containing racist threats and apparently not related to the other

673
00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:39,360
two letters. Michael Low, grand Dragon of another tiny Houston

674
00:40:39,400 --> 00:40:42,599
based KKK faction, was interviewed by The Houston Chronicle. He

675
00:40:42,639 --> 00:40:45,119
said his clan groups opposed to the use of threatening

676
00:40:45,199 --> 00:40:52,320
letters or violence. Warren de de de Lueur, publisher of

677
00:40:52,440 --> 00:40:55,719
left wing alternative paper West Virginia Advocate, was found dead

678
00:40:55,760 --> 00:40:58,559
in his garage in July nineteen ninety two, a victim

679
00:40:58,599 --> 00:41:02,880
of a gunshot wound. Delieure's outspoken attacks on the KKK

680
00:41:03,119 --> 00:41:05,119
were a matter of public record, as he challenged his

681
00:41:05,199 --> 00:41:10,920
members to come out from behind their robes, hoods and masks. Consequently,

682
00:41:10,960 --> 00:41:14,000
the KKK found written on the walls of his home

683
00:41:14,079 --> 00:41:16,519
with a marker, seemed certain to implicate the Klan in

684
00:41:16,599 --> 00:41:19,719
his death. A police investigation soon cleared up the attempt

685
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:23,079
at hoax. Police spokesmen were quoted as saying that the

686
00:41:23,119 --> 00:41:26,000
sixty year old publisher, destroyed over failing health and criticism

687
00:41:26,000 --> 00:41:29,960
of his newspaper, committed suicide. Forensic evidence and examination of

688
00:41:30,000 --> 00:41:35,800
the scene compelled police Corporal dB Burkhart to observe that

689
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:39,840
the results indicate mister Dellure died the results of a

690
00:41:39,880 --> 00:41:43,199
self inflicted gunshot wound with his own gun. A source

691
00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:45,239
said that there was an air of mystery about Deulieu,

692
00:41:45,440 --> 00:41:50,480
and I think he wanted to get out the same way.

693
00:41:51,199 --> 00:41:54,239
Kenneth Daugherty, an employee at the University of San Diego,

694
00:41:54,320 --> 00:41:57,239
told police in February nineteen ninety two that three white

695
00:41:57,280 --> 00:42:00,840
skinheads had attacked him at an automated teller machine after

696
00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:05,280
he had deposited his paycheck. His original account was that

697
00:42:05,360 --> 00:42:08,679
he fought a single skinhead but was overwhelmed when two

698
00:42:08,719 --> 00:42:12,920
other skinheads beat and kicked him while shouting racial epithets. Daugherty,

699
00:42:13,039 --> 00:42:16,559
a black gulf Or Navy veteran, claimed no one in

700
00:42:16,599 --> 00:42:18,719
the parking lot would come to his help, and a

701
00:42:18,719 --> 00:42:20,880
nearby bicycle shop refused to allow him to make a

702
00:42:20,960 --> 00:42:23,440
nine to one one call to police. Finally, he said,

703
00:42:23,480 --> 00:42:25,760
he flied down a patrol car, but the officers refused

704
00:42:25,760 --> 00:42:28,960
to take a report of the hate crime. Media accounts

705
00:42:29,000 --> 00:42:31,559
of the incident brought an orgy of sympathy and offers

706
00:42:31,599 --> 00:42:36,280
of financial assistance. A San Diego Police Department internal investigation, however,

707
00:42:36,320 --> 00:42:39,760
concluded that Dougherty had made up the entire incident. According

708
00:42:39,760 --> 00:42:43,840
to Assistant Police Chief Dave Worden, after an exhaustive investigation

709
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:47,199
into the matter, we believe that his claims were outright fabrications.

710
00:42:47,280 --> 00:42:51,079
We have conclusive evidence it did not happen. No one

711
00:42:51,159 --> 00:42:54,280
Dougherty a claim to have talked with or who witnessed

712
00:42:54,320 --> 00:42:57,199
the incident, could confirm the attack, including the clerk at

713
00:42:57,239 --> 00:42:59,920
the bicycle shop. Police could not locate a single whitis

714
00:43:00,039 --> 00:43:03,639
as from the allegedly crowded parking lot, nor the police

715
00:43:03,639 --> 00:43:08,960
officer that was supposedly flagged down. In New York City,

716
00:43:09,039 --> 00:43:11,280
Lewis Watkins, twenty five, a black man, claimed he had

717
00:43:11,280 --> 00:43:14,079
been beaten in January nineteen ninety two by five white

718
00:43:14,079 --> 00:43:18,000
men in a white van. One man allegedly got out

719
00:43:18,000 --> 00:43:20,480
and pushed him to the ground, then others got out

720
00:43:20,480 --> 00:43:24,039
and began kicking Watkins, using racial slurs and referring to

721
00:43:24,079 --> 00:43:26,440
an earlier abduction and rape of a fifteen year old

722
00:43:26,679 --> 00:43:30,000
white girl by two black men. New York Mayor David

723
00:43:30,039 --> 00:43:33,440
Dinkins took the opportunity to issue an unusually harsh statement

724
00:43:33,480 --> 00:43:37,840
condemning racism in the absolutely senseless, absolutely appalling act of

725
00:43:37,880 --> 00:43:42,039
bias violence. The police investigation became high priority. A few

726
00:43:42,039 --> 00:43:45,840
hours later, however, Mayor Dinkins retracted his statement after police

727
00:43:45,840 --> 00:43:50,239
officials' voice doubts about that the attack even occurred. Watkins

728
00:43:50,239 --> 00:43:52,800
had turned out had made two previous unfounded reports of

729
00:43:52,840 --> 00:43:55,079
beatings at the hands of white men and white vans.

730
00:43:55,599 --> 00:44:01,360
Dinkins pressce Press Secretary Leland T. Jones commented, it's hard

731
00:44:01,400 --> 00:44:03,920
to condemn something that didn't happen. If the price of

732
00:44:03,920 --> 00:44:06,400
a retraction as a biased incident that did not occur.

733
00:44:06,800 --> 00:44:08,840
Will pay the price because we are pleased at an

734
00:44:08,840 --> 00:44:13,639
incident as terrible as this was reported to have been

735
00:44:13,800 --> 00:44:19,679
did not occur. Richard Savino, a white Staten Island, New York,

736
00:44:19,719 --> 00:44:22,599
home owner, was visiting his parents in Delaware, New York,

737
00:44:22,920 --> 00:44:25,400
when police called with news that his house trailer was

738
00:44:25,440 --> 00:44:28,280
on fire. Savino had been trying to sell the trailer

739
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:30,519
for six months. On one occasion, he had shown it

740
00:44:30,559 --> 00:44:33,440
to a black couple. Subsequently, his car was vandalized and

741
00:44:33,519 --> 00:44:36,440
racial slurs were painted on the trailer. He also claimed

742
00:44:36,480 --> 00:44:39,559
to have received threatening telephone calls at the time of

743
00:44:39,599 --> 00:44:43,559
the fire. The slogan now sell to Ends was found

744
00:44:43,599 --> 00:44:46,920
spray painted on a wall. The police classified the incident

745
00:44:46,960 --> 00:44:50,000
as a bias related hate crime. However, other residents in

746
00:44:50,000 --> 00:44:52,480
the neighborhood were puzzled at the course of events. The

747
00:44:52,519 --> 00:44:56,719
development has Black, Indian, Chinese, and Hispanic residents. The president

748
00:44:56,760 --> 00:44:59,800
of the Meadow Brooks Civic Association said, we don't think

749
00:45:00,119 --> 00:45:02,960
to buy a situation. We have a multiracial community here.

750
00:45:05,400 --> 00:45:08,800
On October thirty first, nineteen ninety one, police arrested Savino

751
00:45:08,880 --> 00:45:12,000
himself for the crime He was charged with arson, conspiracy,

752
00:45:12,119 --> 00:45:15,440
insurance fraud, reckless endangerment of property, and false reporting of

753
00:45:15,480 --> 00:45:21,599
an incident. According to police Sergeant Edward Burns, a black man,

754
00:45:21,679 --> 00:45:26,199
Oliver Mason I had allegedly received a racial hate letter

755
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:30,599
and was served a dead mouse and broken glass in

756
00:45:30,639 --> 00:45:34,760
an omelet at an Annapolis, Maryland restaurant. He was hospitalized

757
00:45:34,760 --> 00:45:37,920
briefly after the incident. Mason had also complained of being

758
00:45:37,920 --> 00:45:41,639
a victim of racism at the Annapolis Holiday Holiday Inn,

759
00:45:41,639 --> 00:45:44,960
where he operated a gift shop. Mason was hospitalized again

760
00:45:45,039 --> 00:45:48,679
on April twenty fifth, nineteen ninety one, after he found

761
00:45:48,920 --> 00:45:52,039
was found in a men's restroom with an electric cord

762
00:45:52,079 --> 00:45:55,039
around his neck and the words sorry n written on

763
00:45:55,079 --> 00:45:59,880
the door. It's kind of polite. Mason told police someone

764
00:46:00,039 --> 00:46:05,920
had looped the cord around his neck Jessy Juicy smilette.

765
00:46:05,960 --> 00:46:09,079
Mason was subsequently arrested in charge of filing a false

766
00:46:09,400 --> 00:46:13,639
report and hindering a police investigation. Police spokesman Florence Stephens

767
00:46:13,679 --> 00:46:17,480
said investigators had determined that Mason had written the hate

768
00:46:17,559 --> 00:46:23,239
letter he had reportedly reported receiving. In a nineteen eighty

769
00:46:23,280 --> 00:46:26,920
six case, A Saint Charles Missouri, black girl bridge At Clark, fourteen,

770
00:46:27,000 --> 00:46:28,679
told their parents had two white men had throw an

771
00:46:28,719 --> 00:46:30,920
acid on her and shouted racial slurs as she walked

772
00:46:30,960 --> 00:46:33,800
home from school. The black community was in an uproar.

773
00:46:34,159 --> 00:46:36,800
A police investigation revealed that the acid was actually the

774
00:46:36,840 --> 00:46:39,239
results of an accident at a summer job where the

775
00:46:39,239 --> 00:46:42,519
girls built chemicals on her arm, causing first degree burns.

776
00:46:42,920 --> 00:46:45,039
She made up the story on her way home, her mother,

777
00:46:45,119 --> 00:46:49,039
Shirley Clark said, According to news reports, Missus Clark said Bridget,

778
00:46:49,320 --> 00:46:52,000
who had been doing cleaning work at Dushane High School

779
00:46:52,039 --> 00:46:55,159
through a federal jobs program, would be transferred to work

780
00:46:55,280 --> 00:47:00,719
at another school. The headlines in the February six nineteen

781
00:47:00,800 --> 00:47:05,639
ninety three all right, a bunch of people have contacted me.

782
00:47:06,039 --> 00:47:10,760
Is it Olethay Kansas? Or am I just saying it

783
00:47:10,800 --> 00:47:14,239
wrong on purpose? Because a bunch of people contacted me?

784
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:19,480
The headlines in the February sixth, nineteen ninety three Olithay,

785
00:47:20,159 --> 00:47:24,280
Kansas Daily News were stark and explicit. Vandal scraws racist

786
00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:27,599
message on house under the photograph of a black woman standing.

787
00:47:27,639 --> 00:47:32,280
Besides the hate message ends go home was the caption

788
00:47:32,679 --> 00:47:35,119
Edna Mitchell was surprised and sad and Friday morning to

789
00:47:35,119 --> 00:47:37,000
find a racist remark written on the front of her

790
00:47:37,039 --> 00:47:40,440
spring Hill home. It makes you feel violated, she said.

791
00:47:40,760 --> 00:47:44,199
Rosemary Jackson, Mitchell's sister, was with her when they discovered

792
00:47:44,199 --> 00:47:46,880
the graffiti. She said, my seven year old daughter was

793
00:47:46,920 --> 00:47:50,360
screaming and crying, Mama, how can somebody do this? They

794
00:47:50,360 --> 00:47:52,559
were dumb enough to leave their footprints, and their spelling

795
00:47:52,679 --> 00:47:57,000
was wrong. Later media accounts told of the Mitchell family

796
00:47:57,039 --> 00:48:01,679
being driven from spring Hill or a harassing telephone calls.

797
00:48:01,719 --> 00:48:03,760
They called and told us they were going to kill

798
00:48:03,760 --> 00:48:06,760
our kids. They said we were getting too much publicity,

799
00:48:06,800 --> 00:48:11,440
Mitchell said. Local authority spring into action. Spring Hope police

800
00:48:11,440 --> 00:48:14,280
stopped children on their way home from school for questioning.

801
00:48:14,679 --> 00:48:19,239
Mayor Mary Lavery said she was shocked dismayed. In the

802
00:48:19,280 --> 00:48:21,519
twenty years Lavery had lived in spring Hill, this is

803
00:48:21,559 --> 00:48:23,639
the first time she had heard of a racial incident.

804
00:48:24,039 --> 00:48:29,559
An anti racist witch hunt was brewing. Coincidentally, a nearby Olthay, Kansas.

805
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:34,159
Employees of the Olathay Water Department had been disciplined for

806
00:48:34,320 --> 00:48:39,320
possessing and sharing racially offensive religious literature. The story percolated

807
00:48:39,440 --> 00:48:41,639
in the local news media for a couple of weeks

808
00:48:41,960 --> 00:48:45,000
and was reported statewide in the large circulation. Kansas City

809
00:48:45,039 --> 00:48:50,599
Star olathay ANDAACP leader Sue Cartwright said the distributors of

810
00:48:50,719 --> 00:48:55,519
dangerous literature should be reprimanded fired. Responding to the opportunity

811
00:48:55,519 --> 00:48:58,800
for further notoriety, a tiny KKK grouplet from a rural

812
00:48:58,880 --> 00:49:02,360
Kansas community passed out flyers and a couple dozen houses

813
00:49:02,400 --> 00:49:05,519
in the city. Community leaders were aghassed. All of a sudden,

814
00:49:05,559 --> 00:49:09,320
the community was sensitized and townspeople were speculating about who

815
00:49:09,400 --> 00:49:13,880
might be responsible about the Mitchell incident and then the

816
00:49:13,880 --> 00:49:18,079
bubble burst. On March ninth, police charged Mitchell with two

817
00:49:18,079 --> 00:49:20,719
counts of making false police reports, a class A misdemeanor

818
00:49:20,760 --> 00:49:24,440
in Kansas. Authorities accused her of invincing several stories as

819
00:49:24,440 --> 00:49:26,719
she was being harassed in the community, including her account

820
00:49:26,719 --> 00:49:28,320
of the racial slur on the wall of her home.

821
00:49:28,840 --> 00:49:32,840
Spring Hill police Sergeant Hugh Grossman said, we took this seriously.

822
00:49:32,880 --> 00:49:34,599
We wanted to find out who did it because it

823
00:49:34,639 --> 00:49:36,760
was such a terrible thing for the city to live down.

824
00:49:37,280 --> 00:49:42,679
We were just surprised at the outcome. Charles A. Lewis,

825
00:49:42,679 --> 00:49:45,840
a black mayoral candidate in Jacksonville, North Carolina, found the

826
00:49:45,880 --> 00:49:50,840
words no Vote n in pink spray paint on his house.

827
00:49:50,960 --> 00:49:54,079
On August ninth, nineteen ninety one, a front page story

828
00:49:54,079 --> 00:49:56,360
in the local newspaper depicted Lewis as a victim of

829
00:49:56,360 --> 00:49:58,880
a racial hate crime and photographed him standing in front

830
00:49:58,920 --> 00:50:02,000
of his vandalized home. Lewis portrayed the incident as an

831
00:50:02,000 --> 00:50:06,159
attempt to discourage his candidacy. If they can discourage me

832
00:50:06,199 --> 00:50:09,440
from running by acts of aggression or other forms of hatred,

833
00:50:09,719 --> 00:50:12,079
that's what they will do. But it won't stop us

834
00:50:12,480 --> 00:50:14,719
because you have a mouse in his pocket. There is

835
00:50:14,719 --> 00:50:17,360
more to the story. Lewis contacted police with the claim

836
00:50:17,400 --> 00:50:20,000
that he was being blackmailed. Some woman had made up

837
00:50:20,000 --> 00:50:21,840
a story to the effect that Louis had paid two

838
00:50:21,880 --> 00:50:24,960
men to deface his house, he claimed, and she was

839
00:50:25,000 --> 00:50:28,440
threatening to tell unless he paid her two thousand dollars.

840
00:50:29,519 --> 00:50:32,239
Police initially believed Louis and set up a sting operation

841
00:50:32,320 --> 00:50:35,800
to entrap the woman under electronic surveillance. Lewis met with

842
00:50:35,800 --> 00:50:38,119
the woman and paid her five hundred dollars. Police moved

843
00:50:38,159 --> 00:50:41,000
in and arrested the blackmailer. However, the same woman had

844
00:50:41,039 --> 00:50:43,239
gone to the county Sheriff's office confessed as she was

845
00:50:43,280 --> 00:50:47,440
planning to extort money from Lewis. She insisted that Louis

846
00:50:47,440 --> 00:50:49,559
had asked friends to paint the racial slur on his

847
00:50:49,639 --> 00:50:53,559
house so he could capitalize on victim status. Police contacted

848
00:50:53,559 --> 00:50:56,000
the men who confirmed the story and arrested Lewis when

849
00:50:56,039 --> 00:50:58,920
he visited one of the men. Lewis subsequently confessed to

850
00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:03,480
the hate crime hoax. Lewis, who had previous convictions for

851
00:51:03,559 --> 00:51:06,119
larceny and bad checks, remained in the race, and incredibly,

852
00:51:06,320 --> 00:51:09,960
despite his confession to the police, continued to profess his innocence.

853
00:51:10,639 --> 00:51:13,280
He lost the election. I find that uards believe. I

854
00:51:13,280 --> 00:51:20,079
think today he'd probably fucking win. At California's March Air

855
00:51:20,119 --> 00:51:22,880
Force Base, the dormitory doors of the twenty second Security

856
00:51:22,920 --> 00:51:25,719
Police squadron was covered with racial and sexual slurs and

857
00:51:25,800 --> 00:51:29,039
red marker. The slogans found on October eighth, nineteen ninety

858
00:51:29,079 --> 00:51:34,079
two included stay with your own kind and KKK. Although

859
00:51:34,119 --> 00:51:39,719
both white and black Air Police Black Air Police officers

860
00:51:39,719 --> 00:51:43,639
slept in the dormitory, only the rooms of black swisters

861
00:51:43,639 --> 00:51:48,559
were defaced. Within a week, military police had charged a

862
00:51:48,599 --> 00:51:52,760
black military policeman airman first class Ivory Lease got twenty eight,

863
00:51:53,119 --> 00:51:56,000
an eighteen month Air Force veteran, with seven counts including

864
00:51:56,039 --> 00:52:01,280
damaging government property, making racial and sexual slurs, obstruction of

865
00:52:01,400 --> 00:52:04,880
justice by tampering with three witnesses, and two counts of

866
00:52:04,920 --> 00:52:08,639
making false statements in another matter. The arrest followed a

867
00:52:08,639 --> 00:52:12,440
week long investigation by Wing commander Brigadier General Don Jensen,

868
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:15,239
who uncovered the hoax. They had to bring up Brigadier

869
00:52:15,280 --> 00:52:19,360
General in to uncover the hoaks. Give me a fucking break.

870
00:52:21,119 --> 00:52:24,400
Police informants are often unstable and unreliable, particularly in matters

871
00:52:24,440 --> 00:52:27,679
involving alleged hate crimes. Even in cases where they're not

872
00:52:27,880 --> 00:52:30,519
trying to save their own next they may fabricate stories

873
00:52:30,519 --> 00:52:33,440
for no other reason than to feel important, such a

874
00:52:33,480 --> 00:52:37,440
case secured involving the notorious anti Black and anti Jewish

875
00:52:37,639 --> 00:52:43,280
Aryan Nations organization in Idaho. To the credulist mind, there

876
00:52:43,360 --> 00:52:46,599
is little that one could say of Aryan Nations that

877
00:52:47,000 --> 00:52:50,559
wouldn't be believed. Few organizations have received more publicity entirely

878
00:52:50,599 --> 00:52:54,119
out of proportion to their objective importance than this small group.

879
00:52:54,519 --> 00:52:58,239
Not that the group hasn't sought out such publicity, mind you. Nevertheless,

880
00:52:58,239 --> 00:53:01,000
immedia has sensationalized groups to the point where any news

881
00:53:01,000 --> 00:53:05,440
about them becomes big news. Based on the account by

882
00:53:05,480 --> 00:53:09,440
a former informant, FBI agents approached Martial Men, a Jewish

883
00:53:09,519 --> 00:53:14,480
real estate man in Cordelaine, Idaho, with the news that

884
00:53:14,519 --> 00:53:17,079
a group of white racists had conspired to do him

885
00:53:17,079 --> 00:53:21,199
in along with Bill Wassmuth, a former Catholic priest. Both

886
00:53:21,239 --> 00:53:24,239
men had been active in campaign against Aryan Nations and

887
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:30,119
other white racists activists in their community. The informant, Dan Bordner,

888
00:53:30,159 --> 00:53:33,280
who had infiltrated Arian Nations, had been dropped by the

889
00:53:33,280 --> 00:53:37,159
bureau after FBI agents came to doubt his credibility, also

890
00:53:37,199 --> 00:53:42,639
claimed that a synagogue bombing had been planned for nearby Spokane. Later,

891
00:53:42,719 --> 00:53:45,800
the FBI acknowledged the plot that the plot was sheer fiction.

892
00:53:46,280 --> 00:53:48,559
David Hill of the FBI office in Seattle said, the

893
00:53:48,559 --> 00:53:50,800
bottom line is we found there was no substance to

894
00:53:50,840 --> 00:53:55,639
the allegations. Apparently, however, Bordner, acting as an informant, actually

895
00:53:55,679 --> 00:53:59,079
tried to get a conspiracy of that nature going. According

896
00:53:59,079 --> 00:54:01,840
to February nineteen nine news reports, Sources close to the

897
00:54:01,920 --> 00:54:06,199
investigation said FBI electronic surveillance at Area Nations revealed no

898
00:54:06,320 --> 00:54:08,559
instance where anyone in the group talked about the plot

899
00:54:08,599 --> 00:54:12,960
except the informant, Dan Bordner. Nobody else ever mentioned the threat.

900
00:54:13,039 --> 00:54:16,400
One source said when the FBI gave Bordener lie detector tests,

901
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:20,599
he flunked big time. Floyd Cochrane, at whose home the

902
00:54:20,639 --> 00:54:24,400
group met and who freely admits his membership in Arian Nations,

903
00:54:24,400 --> 00:54:26,880
said that the whole thing was a fiction to mister Bordner.

904
00:54:27,119 --> 00:54:29,480
Cochran's home was searched by the FBI, and the strength

905
00:54:29,519 --> 00:54:32,840
of Bardner's allegations, no incriminating evidence of any kind was

906
00:54:32,880 --> 00:54:36,480
turned up. The FBI suspects that Bordner fabricated the account

907
00:54:36,559 --> 00:54:40,119
in order to promote a future book. I think I'm

908
00:54:40,159 --> 00:54:45,440
going to stop right there. This is the part I

909
00:54:45,480 --> 00:54:47,039
warned you about in the beginning, where it's just going

910
00:54:47,079 --> 00:54:50,440
to be one thing after another. But I think it's

911
00:54:50,440 --> 00:54:54,239
important because it really just goes to show you that

912
00:54:54,320 --> 00:55:01,800
when something really does happen, when there is like actual

913
00:55:03,119 --> 00:55:05,679
violence against a black person by someone white and it's

914
00:55:05,760 --> 00:55:12,000
racially motivated, it's so out of the friggin ordinary. I mean,

915
00:55:12,039 --> 00:55:15,840
it is truly the exception that proves the rule that

916
00:55:17,039 --> 00:55:19,199
most people just don't fucking care and they just want

917
00:55:19,239 --> 00:55:20,880
to go to work and be left alone and not

918
00:55:20,960 --> 00:55:28,199
be hated. And that includes everyone pretty much. But some

919
00:55:28,239 --> 00:55:35,039
people get off and make money and get notoriety and

920
00:55:35,119 --> 00:55:43,480
get famous on saying that they're being victimized, where a

921
00:55:43,519 --> 00:55:48,679
lot of people nowadays can say they are victimized. There's

922
00:55:48,719 --> 00:55:51,480
a whole fucking slew of this country, section of this

923
00:55:51,519 --> 00:55:56,320
country right now that doesn't have power. There's flooding, there's everything,

924
00:55:57,159 --> 00:56:04,719
and government the people who should the government, who the

925
00:56:04,800 --> 00:56:08,639
one fucking job that they have, they're not willing to

926
00:56:08,679 --> 00:56:14,679
do because they hate those people. They hate Appalachians and

927
00:56:14,719 --> 00:56:17,400
the fact that there are black people included in the

928
00:56:17,480 --> 00:56:20,960
victim group doesn't matter to them. The fact is is

929
00:56:21,000 --> 00:56:27,519
freaking white Appalachians and they hate them. That's a real

930
00:56:27,599 --> 00:56:32,360
victim group. Don't be afraid to fucking call yourself a

931
00:56:32,400 --> 00:56:35,800
victim when you are a victim. Here's a whole list

932
00:56:35,840 --> 00:56:40,280
of people who just make shit up. I'm sure you

933
00:56:40,360 --> 00:56:43,000
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940
00:57:04,719 --> 00:57:08,360
and through my website, I'll send you the file. All right,

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that's it, see you when we're going to finish up

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Part five and probably get into part six. Take care bye,