Thursday - March 03, 2016

auto da fe for these three witches

Three University at Albany students who claimed they were victims of a racial attack on a bus last month have been charged with assault as prosecutors said they were actually the aggressors.

Alexis Briggs, Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell, all 20 years old, appeared at Albany City Criminal Court today for their arraignment.

All three have pleaded non-guilty to charges of assault in the third degree, CNN reported. Burwell and Agudio have also pleaded not guilty to falsely reporting the incident.

They claimed they were attacked on a Capital District Transportation Authority bus on January 30, but prosecutors say they actually assaulted a 19-year-old woman early that Saturday.

‘The evidence indicates they were actually the aggressors in the physical altercation, and that they continued to assault the victim despite the efforts of several passengers to stop them,’ police said in a statement.

In addition to the charges of assault and false reporting, Agudio faces counts of attempted assault, harassment and criminal mischief, CNN reported.

Burwell has also been charged with harassment. The false reporting charges are a result of the 911 phone calls she and Agudio made after the incident.

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Police said during a three-week investigation, they reviewed video from 12 security cameras and four cell phones, and also interviewed 35 people, according to WNYT.

University of Albany police released two surveillance videos of the incident.

The police statement issued last week states a 19-year-old woman was the victim, but footage appears to a show a man being assaulted at one point.

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Hillary Clinton also tweeted about the incident writing, ‘There’s no excuse for racism and violence on a college campus.’

However, police said an investigation into the incident showed there was only one victim, the unnamed 19-year-old, who is reportedly white and was allegedly assaulted by the three students.

Police said the three women were never ‘targeted in any manner due to their race,’ according to the statement, adding ‘the only person we heard uttering racial epithets was one of the defendants.’

Finally, people are pushing back against these things - false campus hate crimes (most of them are false) - and demanding punishment, not accepting the acts any longer as “awareness raising”. It wasn’t awareness raising for the Duke lacross team, that’s for sure.

Not a word of it was true, according to authorities — who arraigned the trio on charges including misdemeanor assault and the filing of false police reports.

Not the crime of the century, to be sure — but definitely a cautionary event that left people in high places looking sadly foolish.

These would include Clinton: “There’s no excuse for racism and violence on a college campus,” declared a campaign tweet, which linked to a national newspaper report on the allegations.

Closer to campus, and much more worrisome, was the reflexive response of UAlbany President Robert J. Jones — an estimable fellow who initially swallowed the tale whole.

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