Nolte: Alleged Hate Crime in Madison, WI, Exposed as Yet Another Hate Hoax
After an exhaustive investigation, authorities in Madison, WI, say there’s not enough evidence to prove four white men lit a biracial woman on fire.
According to investigators, she wasn’t even in the city when she says the attack happened.
Back in June, while the terrorists in Black Lives Matter and Antifa were running wild toppling statues, hurling Molotov cocktails, and attacking a state senator in Madison, 18-year-old Althea Bernstein told police she was driving through a protest around 1:00 a.m. and stopped at a red light when she heard someone scream a racial slur. It was a gang of four white men, she claims, one of whom sprayed her with lighter fluid and then lit her on fire by throwing a lit lighter at her.
She says she drove off with her head on fire, put the fire out, and went to the hospital.
Harrowing stuff, except…
It didn’t happen.
Just like pretty much every hate crime we’ve read about these past few years, this one did not happen.
“A team of federal, state and local investigators probed the allegations as a possible hate crime,” reports the Associated Press. “On Friday, the U.S. attorney’s office in Madison issued a statement saying the investigation was closed without charges filed.”
The local police chief also released a statement that said detectives could not “locate evidence consistent with what was reported.”
Here’s what the investigation did find:
Video footage of Bernstein in Middleton, WI, just before 1:00 a.m.
Middleton is a 15-minute drive from Madison.
Video footage of Bernstein’s vehicle stopped only once with no one around the car, her window closed, and her car in the right lane, not in the left lane as she claimed.
Here’s what the investigation did not find:
There’s no footage of four white men matching her description.
An arson dog found no trace of anything incendiary in her car or at the scene.
There was no fire damage in the car.
The police did verify traces of lighter fluid on her shirt, and the hospital confirmed she was burned.
Naturally, because we now live in a country filled with sacred cows that relegates those of us who are not sacred cows to second class citizenry, Bernstein will not be charged with filing a false report, even though all the evidence and common sense say she did.
The story on its face was absurd.
https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2020/10/03/alleged-hate-crime-madison-wi-exposed-yet-another-hate-hoax/