Monday, February 29, 2016




Another false racism claim from students

Three black female college students who claimed to be victims of an assault by a group of white men and women have been charged themselves.

The University at Albany announced Thursday that two of the women, Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell, have been charged with misdemeanor assault and falsely reporting an incident. The third woman, Alexis Briggs, has been charged with misdemeanor assault.

The women, all 20 years old, claimed they were attacked early on the morning of Jan. 30 while riding a bus. They claimed that they were called racial slurs and were physically attacked while bystanders looked on.

Investigators say a review of multiple videos of the incident showed no evidence the women were victims of a crime or subjected to racial slurs. In fact, police said the women were the aggressors, assaulting a 19-year-old white woman.

Police said surveillance and cellphone video, as well as eyewitness testimony, contradicted the women's account. The white men Agudio, Burwell and Briggs claimed assaulted them were actually trying to break up the fight.

"I especially want to point out that what happened on the bus was not a 'hate crime,'" University Police Chief Frank Wiley said in a statement, according to the Albany Times-Union.

The incident roiled tensions on campus and garnered extensive media attention, including a sympathetic tweet from Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton.

The false report charge against Aguido and Burwell stem from 911 calls the women made reporting the incident. In one of the calls, Agudio tells the dispatcher, "It was a racial crime. They were calling us [N-word] and all this stuff ... And if someone doesn't come and take this down or something, I'm going to call the news."

The women are scheduled to appear in court Monday. A conviction on the assault charges is punishable by up to one year in jail.

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8 comments:

Anonymous said...

Punishment is warranted.

Bird of Paradise said...

Will Jessie Jackson get involved as he is always doing will Al Sharpton also poke in his proboses as well? Hey Judge THROW THE BOOK AT THEM

Anonymous said...

Not a hate crime? Of course it was a hate crime, just not like what was originally alleged.

Storm the Abatross said...

Just like with the Duke LaCrosse team and those women who falsely accused them of Rape just another by a bunch of ungreatful bunch of lying liars

Spurwing Plover the fighting shorebird said...

Make them pay the price for their false crime report fine their shorts off them

Anonymous said...

This was CLEARLY a hate crime - just a hate crime directed against White folks. But where's the outrage about THAT?

Anonymous said...

Of course Shrilary would tweet an untruth that she thought would help her with the black vote. Hilary for Prison 2016.

Legs Sparrow said...

When its a black on white crime don't expect any big headlines from the New York Slimes