Hate Crime Hoax Perpetrators Expelled from NY College
Defense attorney claims the testimony against his client was filled with “Trumpisms.”
http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/hate-crime-hoax-perpetrators-expelled-ny-college5.6.2016
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Mark Tapson
TruthRevolt had previously written about the two black female college students who falsely claimed that they were called racial slurs and were physically attacked while riding a bus earlier this year. Those students were recently brought up on charges. Now they have been expelled from the University at Albany as well.
Ariel Agudio and Asha Burwell had been charged with misdemeanor assault and falsely reporting an incident, while Alexis Briggs was charged with misdemeanor assault stemming from the same incident. All three women had pled not guilty.
According to Fox News, University President Robert J. Jones said in an email to The Albany Times Union Thursday that Agudio and Burwell were expelled and that Briggs was suspended for two years.
The three women, all 20 years old, had claimed they were called racial slurs and attacked by whites early on the morning of January 30 while riding a bus. But investigators say a review of multiple surveillance and cellphone videos, as well as eyewitness testimony, showed no evidence the women were victims of a crime or subjected to racial slurs. In fact, the women were the aggressors, assaulting a 19-year-old white woman, while the white men accused of assaulting the black women were actually trying to break up the fight.
According to The Times-Union, the students didn’t appear for their March 9 hearing with the student conduct board, claiming a conflict of interest because the school served as judge in the board hearings and a witness in the criminal case. Two witnesses to the incident spoke in their absence.
University Police Inspector Paul Burlingame testified in the hearing that the women started the fight and that there was no evidence to corroborate Burwell’s claim of assault. The school’s vice president of communications and marketing, Joseph Brennan, was the other witness who testified at the conduct hearing. He said the students’ actions caused “reputational harm” to the university.
In the face of overwhelming video and eyewitness evidence against his client Burwell, lawyer Frederick Brewington claimed that the testimony against Burwell was filled with so-called “Trumpisms,” and that his absent client was unable to defend herself. Because when all else fails, pull the racism card. That's what the three students did in the first place.
News 10 reported that the women refused to make a public apology - naturally, because once played, the racism card can never be retracted.