The Pete Quiñones Show - Pete Reads 'Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America' by Laird Wilcox - Part 4

Episode Date: October 5, 2024

56 MinutesPG-13Pete continues a reading of Laird Wilcox's 1994 book, 'Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America.' He covers most of chapter 5.Antelope Hill - Promo code "peteq" for 5% off - https://an...telopehillpublishing.com/FoxnSons Coffee - Promo code "peter" for 18% off - https://www.foxnsons.com/Pete and Thomas777 'At the Movies'Support Pete on His WebsitePete's PatreonPete's SubstackPete's SubscribestarPete's GUMROADPete's VenmoPete's Buy Me a CoffeePete on FacebookPete on TwitterBecome a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-pete-quinones-show--6071361/support.

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Starting point is 00:01:33 Search Trump-Ireland gift vouchers. Trump on Thunbeog, Kush Faragea. I want to welcome everyone back to part four of my reading of Crying Wolf, Hate Crime Hoaxes in America by Laird Wilcox. Quick reminder about Thomas and I doing movie reviews, watching movies, commenting on them. If you go to my website, Freemam Beyond the Wall.com forward slash movies, you can see all the movies that we've recorded and how you can access them.
Starting point is 00:02:06 All right. I'm going to jump in in Chapter 5, and we may not get through this one. This is a long chapter. Kind of strange, but, you know, considering the first heading is Blacks. So, yep, here we go. Chapter 5. By far, the largest number of hoax incidents involve black victims and non-black, usually. white offenders. This is true both on the campus and in the community. The most common motive is to
Starting point is 00:02:36 capitalize on the psychological benefits of victimization or to promote a specific personal, social, or political agenda, but other motives such as insurance fraud and attempts to cover up other crimes are not uncommon. Some hoaxes are simple pranks. They got out of hand, but the majority involves some degree of planning and deliberate organization. New heading, cases. He already touched on this one, but it's a good one to come back to. I remember this one clearly. In November 1987, a Black Wopinger's Falls, New York teenager, Tijuana Brawley, claimed to have been kidnapped for several days, raped by white men, smeared with dog feces, placed in a plastic garbage bag, and marked with racial slurs. The case quickly became a cause-celebrb, with editorials, marches,
Starting point is 00:03:25 and politicians and media personalities deploring the incident and the racist climate that obviously led to it. Reverend Al Sharpton, a black activist with a shady background, became spokesman for the Brawley family, and insisted that justice be done, and the white men responsible be prosecuted. The incident fueled support for hate crime legislation around the nation, as the case was reported nightly on network news. Yeah, I was living in Florida at the time, and it was on the news every damn night. Tijuana Brawley and her handlers bast in nationwide white attention and acquired victim status on a scale rarely seen. Discreancies in her story were evident from the very beginning. A claim that she had been raped and brutalized by three white police
Starting point is 00:04:11 officers quickly fizzled out under examination. A detailed investigation determined that she was seen by friends during the period she said she was held captive and that she spent much of this time in an apartment previously rented by her family. Other elements of her story were gradually eliminated one by one, and police subsequently reported that the Brawley case was a massive fabrication and hoax. What made the Broadway case outstanding was the incredible media-feeding frenzy that took place. Although there was reason for skepticism virtually from the beginning, newspaper and television media were slow to pick up on the implausible nature of the allegations. Only at, newspaper and television media, they were slow to pick up on it.
Starting point is 00:04:54 They didn't want to pick up on it. They wanted to capitalize on it for several reasons. It just doesn't have to be one reason ever for anything. It's several reasons. Only after the doubt was substantial and clearly pointing in the direction of a hoax was the public informed. New York Post columnist Eric Brindell commented that radical attorney William Consular had said concerning the Brawley case, it makes no difference anymore whether the attack on Tijuana really happened. A lot of black women are treated the way she says she was treated.
Starting point is 00:05:33 A lot of black women are kidnapped by police held in apartments, smeared with dog feces, raped over and over again, and put in the garbage back. Is that what William Consular would have us believe? Three years after the case broke, the Brawley matter was still being litigated. According to news reports, a county prosecutor was defamed by a black teenager who falsely claimed he was one of six white men who abducted and raped her, a judge ruled. State Supreme Court Judge Ralph Bindsner ruled Tuesday that Tijuana Brawley intentionally inflicted emotional distress on Stephen Paganus, a former assistant district attorney for Duchess County. A special grand jury cleared Mr. Pagonas of any involvement in the Brawley case and concluded Ms. Brawley fabricated the story. As the Brawley incident was capturing headlines in Wappinger Falls, 25 miles away in Kingston, New York,
Starting point is 00:06:31 another racial hate crime hoax was brewing. Police had discovered the nude body of 19-year-old Anna Kithkart, a black woman who had been strangled, beaten, and killed. On both eyes, record the initials KKK, an obvious reference to the Ku Klux Klan. The community was shocked and it seemed clear that malignant racism had once again struck an innocent black person. But not for long. Within days, police investigation focused on jail. Jeffrey Allen Dawson, a 29-year-old black man with a criminal record. Dawson was arrested after he made incriminating statements about the murder to a wired undercover policeman.
Starting point is 00:07:11 Kingston Police Department sources said the murder was apparently drug-related. As for alleged KKK connection, Ulster County District Attorney Michael Kavanaugh said, nothing would lead us to believe that this murder was committed by members of any racial hate group, such as the KKK. Interestingly, two Brawley family advisors, Reverend Al Sharpton and Alton Maddox Jr., got on the bandwagon in this case, too. Sharpton and Maddox were soon conducting their own investigation in the slaying. Said Maddox, I believe it was a racially motivated crime. Yeah, it was, but not in the way you're talking about. October 1991, two cross burnings reported South Seattle, Washington.
Starting point is 00:07:59 The first cross was 30 inches tall, the second. The second cross never actually ignited. Aaron Briggs, one of the victims, said, It makes me sad that we have not come as far as I thought we had come. Predictably, the KKK-style cross-burning sent a shock through the community. Sensitivities were raised. Racism was deplored and anti-racist forces were energized. Three months later, the monster was captured.
Starting point is 00:08:25 Unlike most other cases where the culprit is vilified and condemned, and where no excuse whatsoever will do, the case was reported with kindness and understanding and with a charity and compassion unusual in stories of racist criminals. Here's why. When they heard the confession of a troubled 16-year-old who admitted he was behind a string of cross-burnings and racial vandalism against black people in southern Seattle, police were stunned and saddened. The youth, who also was black, told police he committed the acts of vandalism to create fear
Starting point is 00:08:54 that would attract the media. Captain Douglas Dills, who heads the police section that investigates a malicious harassed, or hate crimes, said it appears as the youth had a fascination with both national and local media coverage of racism and racial incidents. The teenager is not only under suspicion in a string of malicious hate harassment crimes, but in several arsons as well. You know what that tells me? That tells me that he's a victim. Because he had to watch all of that and see it. The newspaper also reported that the youth might have been inspired.
Starting point is 00:09:32 by a Phil Donahue TV show the day before about hate crimes. According to police, the arrest cleared up a large number of unsolved cases of allegedly racially motivated crimes in the community, all registered in the statistics kept by anti-racist groups. One of the most convoluted and bizarre hate crime hoaxes was exposed in Portland, Oregon in October 1992. Hoaxes can be very elaborate, and almost always requires some degree of planning. But the case of Azalea, Cooley, 40, A black lesbian involved a series of misrepresentations, distortions, and outright lies covering up to eight years, including false claims of disability that left her wheelchair bound and a bogus racial harassment that began as far back as 1985 when she allegedly received death threats. In 1983, Cooley moved in with Susan Sown, whom she had been dating since 1981.
Starting point is 00:10:30 Wow, it took that long. In 1986, she claimed she had been diagnosed with cancer and quit her job as a corrections officer. Cooley and Sown, also a corrections officer, continued to live together and were active in community politics. I am completely shocked by that. The most recent reports of racial harassment began on May 3, 1992, when racist graffiti was painted on Cooley and Sone's house. Following that, the word N was painted on the house, a note card with Hitler lives, death to all. ends was found on the doorstep and a swastika with the words burn and burn was written on coolly's wheelchair ramp over a period of week some 17 hate crimes incidents occurred none of which police
Starting point is 00:11:14 were able to solve hitler lives death to all someone point to any evidence that hitler had any problem with black people check some of his quotes about them coolly and sown turned to the local anti-bigotry coalition to counsel them through the ordeal. The Metropolitan Human Rights Coalition, and when I say had a problem with them, that he wanted to see them destroyed or dead or anything like that. He, yeah, I mean, having opinions is not the same as, oh, they should all, you know, be punished in some sort of way. Collian Zone turns to the local anti-bigotry coalitions to counsel them through the ordeal.
Starting point is 00:12:01 The Metropolitan Human Rights Coalition set up a special hotline to receive tips on the perpetrators. Police questions several suspected skinheads and neo-Nazis and even arrested one man who was seen watching the cross-burning Cooley's yard, but later said they didn't believe he was responsible. You catch them in the corner of your eye. Distinctive. By design. They move you. Even before you drive.
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Starting point is 00:14:03 victimized classes, i.e. the black, handicapped, and gay lesbian communities. She reveled in her victimhood and eagerly accepted the role of a martyr. On Sunday, November 1st, 1992, she helped lead a rally and March named Take a Stand Against Hate Through Portland. I thought she couldn't stand or walk. Photos of Cooley being pushed in her wheelchair. Oh, yep. At the head of the march were widely publicized. There's just something about that. She became a symbol of the fight against bigotry and prejudice on a grand scale. On the very morning of the march, someone set fire to a cross on Kuli's lawn, unbeknown to Kooley and Sown, however, this time police cameras recorded the incident. That same evening, police arrived in search to Kooley-Kone residents.
Starting point is 00:14:53 They said they found items in the house consistent when materials used in the cross burning. The videotape showed that the person who lit the cross had come from inside the house. Susan Sown, who had filed the original hate crime complaints, was served with a warrant for initiating a false police report, a Class C misdemeanor. She was placed on administrative suspension at the Multnomah County Jail, where she had been a line supervisor for 15 years. No charges were filed against Cooley at that time. Scott Lively, spokesman for the Oregon Citizens Alliance, a group opposing special civil rights protections for homosexuals known as ballot measure number nine, responded to the the arrest. He said, this vindicates our position that the no-on-nine campaign has been basing their position on fraud. I think there is high emotion on both sides, but when a black crippled woman in
Starting point is 00:15:44 a wheelchair starts burning crosses in her own yard, it's fraud in a sad day for the community. I think it exposes what we have been saying all along. On November 20th, 1992, the Oregonian, Portland Daily, reported that Azalea had confessed to staging the cross-burnings, death threats, and vandalism. admitted that the hate crimes that happened at our home were my doing. In June 1993, federal judge Helen J. Frye placed Cooley on two years probation for lying to an FBI agent. She was also ordered to spend four months in house arrest. The charges against Soan, who had filed a defamation lawsuit against sheriff's officers involved in the investigation, were still pending at the time of this
Starting point is 00:16:25 writing. How was Cooley able to fool so many people for so long? Rachel Zimmerman, writing in Willamette Week, a Portland weekly noted, Cooley fooled so many, so fully because she was seen as the ultimate victim, an African-American lesbian, wheelchair bound, and dying of brain cancer, haunted by an anonymous bigot. In hindsight, there were a number of signs suggesting the attacks were a hoax. But those who came to Cooley's aid were blinded, either by naivete, by their own abhorrence of racism, or by the temptation to hold such a victim up as a symbol, even a martyr. In 1990, Curtis Sliwa, founder of the multiracial and quasi-visigilante Guardian Angel's organization, claimed in 1980 that three New York City Transit officers abducted him, drove him around,
Starting point is 00:17:16 and threatened him in order to force his organizations to end subway patrols. He also claimed that someone painted KKK and white power outside the group's headquarters. The organization founded by Slewa in 1978 had acquired a reputation for sensationalism, and as publicity seeking. As Slewa puts it, we were just little people trying to get recognition for doing good work. In November 1992, Slewa admitted that the kidnapping, the KKK graffiti, and other events were in fact faked.
Starting point is 00:17:44 He remarked that the constant media attention played a part in the deceptions. It became like an intoxic, a narcotic, he said. Early life on Slewa. Three men and a youth, all black, were arrested in August 1990 in connection with three crimes. Cross burnings in Prince George's County, Maryland. Ross Farewell, 18, Gerald Simmons 20, and Reginald Stewart, 21, and the juvenile were charged with the offenses. According to Captain Ron Siernaki of the County Fire Department, a homeowner in the Forest View
Starting point is 00:18:20 section of the community discovered the cross burning in the front yard about 3 a.m. after a brick was hurled through the living room window. Earlier, three black youths had jokingly donned white sheets and set fire to a cross in front of a friend's house in the 9,500 block of Castle Drive in Forestville. The friend came out to see what was going on and then joined the trio as they went on. Captain Siernarki, Siernicki, went on to minimalized hate crime aspects of the incident, claiming that the act wasn't racially or religiously motivated. They were just being crazy. I guess something that just got out of hand. Can't dismiss this stuff. In Lawrence, home of the University of Kansas, a small cross was burned and KKK was spray-painted
Starting point is 00:19:06 in several buildings in Lawrence neighborhoods in October 1990. Police determined that the culprit were probably juveniles. The two-foot high cross was made from pieces of wood taken from a discarded sofa, tied together with fabric from the sofa, wedged against the ground and building, and set a fire. The Edgewood Home Tenants Association held an emergency meeting last week to express anxiety. It's terrible because so many people are afraid. said 15-year resident Francis Moore, 63 years old. In another case, a cross was burned in front of an all-white fraternity near the University,
Starting point is 00:19:41 Kansas, accompanied by a note containing anti-white comments. Militant anti-racists have been active in the Lawrence community and at the university, and Angela Davis, a former member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party USA, and militant anti-racist activists had recently spoken at KU. Other suspected hoaxes have occurred. What makes the Lawrence case interesting is that obvious hoaxes, were treated as bona fide incidents by the media, which in turn encourages hoaxers. Wichita Eagle writer Dave Hendrick wrote a lengthy article entitled Racial Taint Lawrence's Image,
Starting point is 00:20:16 never mentioning that the cross-burnings and graffiti were hoaxes. He did note that reports about the cross-burnings and graffiti have been filed from Clan Watch, a division of the Southern Poverty Law Center in Montgomery, Alabama. These fake hate incidents may become part of the statistics they issue periodically. An unnamed black teenager in Queens, New York, told authorities that a white man had set him on fire. News reports of December 1986 noted that police had first believed the account reported it as a third racial attack in Queens in a week, but when detectives found inconsistencies to 15-year-old and three of his friends admitted the fabrication, police said. The youth had accidentally burned himself by letting gasoline in a fireplace.
Starting point is 00:21:01 That's just Darwin. He fabricated the story in order to avoid punishment and gain sympathy. In Benzillum, Pennsylvania, Albert A. Dawson, a 28-year-old black man, was arrested in charge with ethnic intimidation in February 1984 for allegedly setting crosses of fire on the lawns of four interracial couples. At the time of the incidents, it was believed that the offenses were committed by white racists. One of the couples, Floyd Darden, 33, who is black, and his wife, Janet, who was white, woke up with a burned cross in their yard. The fact that he's black brings a totally different dimension to the thing Darden said. another family living directly across the street from Dawson consisted of a young black woman who recently married a white man. Another interracial couple also victimized lived two blocks away. Dawson 28 was freed
Starting point is 00:21:49 after posting 10% of his $50,000 bail. Alan Rubinstein, assistant district attorney, said that the crossburning certainly was a racially most motivated incident. Had Dawson not been apprehended the image of the KKK or neo-Nazi skinheads would have remained in the public mind concerning the incident. Ready for huge savings? We'll mark your calendars from November 28 to 30th because the Liddle Newbridge Warehouse Sale is back. We're talking thousands of your favorite Liddle items all reduced to clear. From home essentials to seasonal must-habs. When the doors open, the deals go fast.
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Starting point is 00:24:15 Ronald Oliver, president of the 1,000-member Guardian Civic League, Philadelphia's minority police organization, said, for a black person to do that is beyond my capacity. That point leaves me wondering. One of the most widely publicized cases of terroristic bombing in U.S. history blamed on racist and occurring on the very eve of a congressional vote on hate crimes responding reporting legislation in December 1989 contains the elements of a planned deception. Newspapers and television throughout the nation spoke of the connection between the series of letter bombs which resulted in the murder of a U.S.
Starting point is 00:24:51 district judge and a lawyer who had handled civil rights cases and the claimed rising tide of racially motivated hate crimes. The incidents proved useful in promoting the agenda of the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Center for Democratic Renewal. Both organizations attempted to link the bombings to right-wing racial extremists. As early, an early suspect in the mail bombing of U.S. District Court, Judge Robert Vance, and attorney Robert Robinson, Wayne O'Farrell of Enterprise Alabama, proved the dead end. Hundreds of federal agents descended upon O'Farrell's home and salvage store in a prolonged, detailed investigation. that was covered daily in the national media.
Starting point is 00:25:33 Nevertheless, investigators failed to find any conclusive evidence linking him with the bombings. When O'Farrell was under investigation, he sold T-shirts to tourists as souvenirs and had his photo taken with visitors to his store. Dodie Lee Snow, a relative of Hank Snow, recorded a song, a tribute to Robert Wayne O'Farrell, which he sold cassette tapes of for $5 each. Several months later, federal agents arrested Walter Leroy Moody on several unrelated charges. Moody, who had been convicted for bomb possession in 1972, Moody had been convicted for bomb possession in 1972. Moody, it turned out, had been a suspect almost from the beginning.
Starting point is 00:26:13 Federal agents had focused on O'Farrell as a diversion. In an attempt to throw investigators off his trail, Moody included racist commentary in his letters to various media to create the false impression that the bombings were racially motivated when, in fact, they were not. According to news reports, Mr. Moody has no history of racial animus. and both his brother and Michael Bergen, a former Moody lawyer who married a black woman, said they believed that if race was behind the mail bombs, they would be surprised if Mr. Moody would be involved.
Starting point is 00:26:41 Moody became a suspect shortly after O'Farrell did, although federal agents did not divulge this fact to the media. In fact, federal agents were watching Moody almost two weeks before highly publicized searches of O'Farrell's premises took place. The focus on O'Farrell kept the issue up in the air, and newspapers around the country speculated on what seemed an obvious racist motivation, behind the crime. Full public attention to Moody would have exposed a total absence of racial motivation. There was no law enforcement need for the O'Farrell deception. For Moody knew he was a suspect
Starting point is 00:27:11 as soon as he was placed under surveillance early in the investigation. The federal agents were not particularly surreptitious, said Moody's attorney, Walt Michael Hopman, adding that Moody was under constant surveillance from early January until his arrest in July on unrelated charges. agents made their headquarters a convenience store down the street from Moody's home and followed Moody while wearing jackets with FBI printed on the back. The hate crime angle was allowed to percolate through public consciousness for 11 months, including the period when hate crime reporting legislation was before Congress, which subsequently passed. Moody was apparently kept under surveillance to be arrested at the appropriate time.
Starting point is 00:27:55 On June 28, 1991, Moody was found guilty on all 71 counts related to the bombings, during his trial, federal prosecutors conceded that his motives were devoid of any racial considerations. Prosecutors said that Moody was obsessed with his failure to get his 1979 conviction for possessing a bomb overturned, leave a criminal record that prevented him from attaining his dream of practicing law. Moody blamed the KKK for the bombings. In July 1987, Portsmouth, Virginia, black community leaders began receiving vitriolic racist, hate mail, including obscenities, racist remarks, and threats. Calls for actioning as the white hate group were demanded.
Starting point is 00:28:37 It was cited as one more example of the rising tide of hate crimes. The incident took a dramatic turn when the police investigation found that fingerprints on the letters belonged to James W. Holly III, the city's first black mayor, who denied the charges and claimed that he had been framed. Fortunately for Holly, at the time of the incident, there were no hate crime statutes, so he wasn't charged with a criminal act. In all, some 30 letters directed to eight individuals, all but one of them black leaders in the community had been mailed. The mayor's fingerprints were on file with federal authorities because of a
Starting point is 00:29:10 1973 assault charge of which he was acquitted. Test showed copies of newspaper clippings contained in the mailings were made by the copier on the sixth floor of the city hall where the mayor had his office. Five months later, voters held a recall election and 57.7% of the electorate voted to retire the 60-year dentist and longtime civil rights leader. Holly continued to maintain that he had been framed. In Milwaukee, Wisconsin, a Black City alderman initiated a hoax in June 1990 that nearly put a hundred-year-old meat company out of business. Alderman Michael McGee, who had recently formed a black paramilitary group called the Black Panther Militia, charged a sausage packed by white-owned Usinger's famous sausage incorporated, was tainted with rat poison. McGee, McGee,
Starting point is 00:29:58 said the militant African underground squad was responsible. When the company recalled 80,000 pounds of meat from 150 stores and examination found none of the meat tainted, according to news reports, Milwaukee mayor, John O. Norquist, and others said they believe McGee's story was fabricated because the alderman brought the warning to news media instead of reporting it immediately to police. It's a hoax, it's phony Norquist charge. What he's really doing is scaring the hell out of people, which feeds racism, and bigotry. The controversy arose when a group of businessmen opposed a McGee-sponsored bill to rename a
Starting point is 00:30:35 city street after Martin Luther King Jr. A portion of the street in question is already named for him. The businessmen opposed renaming the rest of the street, saying the change would inconvenience their businesses. Letters appearing to be of KKK origin, exhorting blacks to continue killing each other, circulated in Washington, D.C. for a several week period in 1991, entitled A Salute to All Gang Bangers, the letters thanked black gang members for having killed over 4,000 blacks since 1975. The letters read, keep killing each other for nothing. You are killing each other for our property. You are killing what could be future black doctors, lawyers, and businessmen that we won't have to compete with.
Starting point is 00:31:18 And the good thing about it is that you are killing the youth. One edited version was printed in the Washington Afro-American newspaper. observers noted that one version of the letter miss spells the name of the Clu Klux Klan, Clucks with the S. Washington, D.C. talk show host Robert Breeden said on WPGC Radio, I don't think the letter is from the clan, but it should give those who are involved in black-on-black violence something to think about. I think the letter was written by some black person who, like myself, is fed up with the violence and is trying to do whatever it takes to get through to these young people. in Brooklyn, New York, a 16-year-old teenager said she had been the victim of a racial hate crime at the hands of two 17-year-old white ewes as she was walking on a city street late one Sunday evening.
Starting point is 00:32:07 According to police sergeant Adele James, they yelled ethnic slurs and said she didn't belong there. They went through her purse, removed lipstick, ripped their blouse, and smeared lipstick on her chest and neck. Then they struck her in the face and fled the scene. The teenager was taken to Coney Island Hospital, where she was treated by four. physicians and released, according to news reports. Four days later, on October 3, 1992, newspapers reported that the teenager had recanted her story. It didn't happen, said Captain William Plackenmire. She was looking for sympathy from her boyfriend and made up a story. Police investigators began to suspect the hoax when important elements of her story didn't check out. In the meanwhile,
Starting point is 00:32:46 New York Mayor David Dinkins excited the case as an example of hate crime to illustrate the need for state anti-biased laws, David Dinkins. I mean, New York has had some prized mayors. I'm being facetious. Jenkins took the cake. He was replaced by Rudy Giuliani, who as much of a scumbag as he would become, and now he seems to, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:33:17 trying to redo his image or something like that. Giuliani did clean up the city. It only took building an army and putting an army on the streets in order to do it, which is, I think if you're going to have multicultural society, that's the way you're going to have to do it. You're just going to have an overwhelming police presence that's ready to shoot anybody that gets out of line. Also, being able to drive up property prices helps a lot, renting rent prices, things like that.
Starting point is 00:33:48 Yep. Not that I condone that. but I don't condone living in cities either. So hate crime hoaxes are sometimes used to cover up crimes to draw attention away from criminal activity or to create a victim cover for an individual fearing discovery and criminal prosecution. Duran Birdsong and a 16-year-old black youth testified in May 1988 that David Price and 18-year-old black man was shot and killed by a carload of white men who were yelling racial epithets while driving through a Louisville, Kentucky neighborhood. Police Chief Bobby Crouch described the shooting as a racial hate crime.
Starting point is 00:34:28 The charges rocketed through the Louisville, Kentucky community, and quickly brought calls for justice and an end to white racist terrorism. There were problems with this account, however. Police showed that Price had been shot from a distance of three to six feet away, not 30 or 40 feet away, as Birdsong had testified. Also, it was learned that Price was a drug dealer. Later in September 1988 in federal court, Birdsong recancered his previous story and testified that Price was shot in the back by Keith Pointer,
Starting point is 00:34:58 a 17-year-old black youth and fellow drug dealer. According to news reports, while police still believe there was a carload of men yelling at blacks in the area, they now believe Price, who is black, may have been shot accidentally. No shots were fired from the alleged carload of whites. This was a fiction. Birdsong originally concocted to protect Pointer. Birdsong stuck with the fabrication during four statements to the FBI, finally told his mother to call police, and he told them what had actually happened.
Starting point is 00:35:30 Heavy smoke poured from the west wing of the Manor Baptist Church and School in San Leandro, California in September 1992, destroying the church offices and damaging the library. Police and fire investigators initially believed the arson was a racially motivated hate crime. Graffiti was sprayed on the walls before the church was doused with, caracine and gasoline and set a fire. Almost immediately, though, attention shifted to Sean Reagan. 30, former principal of the church school and church treasurer. He had been accused of embezzling 20,000 in church funds. Reagan had resigned from his post in June 1992. The reason, according to church officials, was his poor performance. Reagan told investigators that he sprayed the graffiti to make them think
Starting point is 00:36:16 the arson was racially motivated. According to San Leandro Police, lieutenant James O'Meara, part of Reagan's motive was emotional. Revenge and anger toward the people and fearful that he was going to be exposed. In July, 1991, 73-year-old Helen Cluel, who lived alone in an Upper East Side building, was found stabbed, beaten, and strangled in her apartment. According to news reports, the police, after finding a note in Mrs. Cluel's apartment that contained references to the KKK and racial and ethnic slurs classified the killing as a bias incident. But Captain William Rowe, the commander of the fourth detective division, said the police had been unable to link the contents of the notes of the crime. A few days later, police had their culprit
Starting point is 00:37:01 in custody. The note which read KKK hates Jews, ends, and spies, had apparently been written by Charles Ocasio, a Hispanic who lived with his mother at the same floor as the victim. Police Detective Joseph Burrell observed that the apartment house is a very secure building. He said, most investigators had a gut feeling it was someone who lived in the building or had access to it. The note was intended to kind of throw us off the track. It just didn't fit. Albany Oregon's mayor, Gene Bellhumor, reported to police in June 1993 that he had been the victim of a racial hate crime. Bell humor is white. His wife and children from her previous marriage are black. His 17-year-old son awakened him with the story that two boys had flattened three of the tires on the family car and stole a hood ornament.
Starting point is 00:37:50 A racial hate note was attached to the windshield, which made the defense a hate crime under Oregon law. Police were looking for two teenagers. However, when they interrogated Bell Humor's son, the next day, the boy admitted to police having fabricated the hate crime, story after driving the car into a ditch and flattening three tires. Three black ewes on a bicycle stealing spree in June 1991 claimed to have been attacked by a group of white men before they were apprehended by police in Cleveland, Ohio. So three black ewes were stealing bikes on a spree, and they were just attacked.
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Starting point is 00:40:10 who chased and apprehended five black youths, four others got away. Cleveland Police Sergeant Patrick Reynolds had fabricated the story to conceal their crimes. The blacks were among a larger group who had previously stolen bicycles from the same bike shop.
Starting point is 00:40:26 When they returned to the bike shop, an employee, thinking they were going to make a second attempt, ran out after them. The fabricated account of the attack by white men was easily debunked in this instance. According to Cleveland prosecutor Mark McLean, after the police talked to everyone, it was clear there was no racially motivated attack. The 14-year-old black teenager claimed they've been shot in a racially motivated drive-by shooting near Clear Lake California. in July 1988. This raised the consciousness of the community to the issue of hate crimes and related matters. One month later, however, Clear Lake Police Chief Robert Sudo reported that the black youth admitted that he had accidentally shot himself in the hand with a revolver he claimed to have found in a park. No hate crime had ever occurred. In Akron, Ohio, two black teenagers
Starting point is 00:41:16 reported in March 1889 that a carload of white youths had beaten them. The attack had occurred as they were walking along a city street, they said. The white ewes began taunting them and then attacked them. Both boys suffered facial injuries and the 14-year-old's jaw was broken in four places and four teeth had been knocked out. I mean, this is just, this story is always the reverse. When, when do you ever, if you can name one case where white ewes drove by and started taunting and then jumped out and started beating some black kids just for no reason other than they're
Starting point is 00:41:54 black. You're proven my point. When does this ever happen? If this happened all the time, we'd be talking about that all the time. It'd be on the news every fucking night. The day of the attack, police began investigating the theft of a 1979 Chevrolet from a parking lot. Police discovered that the attacked black teenagers have stolen the car and wrecked it when the 16-year-old drove into a pole.
Starting point is 00:42:17 The facial injuries were apparently caused by the accident. They were charged with receiving stolen property and making a false police report. In August of 1988, a biracial couple living in the Troy, New York, Martin Luther King Apartments reported finding their apartment walls painted what racial slurs in the initials KKK. Dawn Row is white, her 63-year-old husband, Pleasant's is black, and they have six children. I'm not even going to begin to ask questions about that. The couple reported that they had been taunt to what racial slurs to the point that they often stayed inside with the curtains drawn. Police investigate in the incident, however, told another story.
Starting point is 00:42:59 Detective Robert Paul came to suspect that the victims had been feuding with someone. He said there had been no signs of forced entry. Neighbors had not noted anything unusual around the apartment at the time of the alleged hate crime. He noted that the housing complex is racially mixed and that biracial couples are not uncommon. There had been no other racial incidents there. Police declined to characterize the case as a hoax when pressed, but it was clear that there was suspicion that the KKK was not haunting the complex after all. It had the potential to be another Rodney King case.
Starting point is 00:43:34 Four white Berkeley, California police officers were accused of severely beating Ronald Griffin, 25, a black man who was taken to a local hospital with a broken upper and lower jaws and several teeth knocked out. A police officer identified by the victim as the one primarily responsible for the May in 1992 incident was placed on administrative leave. According to Griffin, he had been walking along a Berkeley street when two officers pulled up, asked him to identify himself, and drove away. He said that two squad cars came by later with two additional officers, put him in one of
Starting point is 00:44:07 the cars and drove him to an unknown location where he was handcuffed, beaten, beaten unconscious with a baton, and abandoned. The media initially sensationalized the case. However, it was soon learned that Griffin had been recently released from Sam Quentin after serving four years for attempted murder and robbery. His arrest record also included narcotics dealing, burglary, and auto theft. On several occasions, Griffin either fled or resisted arrest and in one case almost rammed his car into a patrol car. Four days later, lawyers for Griffin announced that plans for a lawsuit against a policeman was dropped due to lack of supporting evidence. The police department interviewed all officers who were on duty when the alleged beating occurred and reviewed all radio transmissions during the period.
Starting point is 00:44:53 After a thorough investigation, they announced that Griffin's account was a fabrication. According to news reports, police here say they now have solid evidence that the Richmond Blackman, who was claimed that he was beaten up 10 days ago by four white Berkeley cops made up the entire episode to cover his involvement in a three-city crime spree. sources said police believe Griffin attempted to rob a drug dealer and his jaw was broken when his victim hit him with a gun butt. Finally, as the hoax unraveled, it was learned that the day before Griffin made his charges against police, he had allegedly fired a gun at a tenderloin dope dealer. He was trying to hold up. The bullet hit and killed an innocent Mexican immigrant bystander. The gun recoiled, striking him in the jaw, which accounted for Griffin's injuries. The hell was he shooting?
Starting point is 00:45:42 I'm not going to say that. Griffin, along with a companion, was subsequently charged with murder, two-arm robberies, and car theft. He was returned to San Quentin Prison, where he was being held on parole violation. Reverend James Dixon, a black minister in Houston, Texas, had received a hate letter in January 1992, which said, Boy, you are one troublemaker. What do you think we should do about this? The words, this is the clan were printed in large letters and an illustration of a clansman in robin hood was included. Media accounts said the letter contained several racist statements,
Starting point is 00:46:20 like they had to draw a robe in a hood because no one knows what the clan would look like. Charles Lee, Texas Grand Dragon of the miniscule white chameleon Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, denied his organization was involved. The letter might be a hoax to arouse publicity for Dixon. Lee said that this kind of thing only brought notoriety and police harassment for the clan. But a few days later, another letter appeared. This one, apologizing for the first one. The writer said he was not a member of the KKK and that he had intended the letter as a joke and apologized for the letter. Constable Jack Abersia said the author of the apology also wrote the original letter based upon similarities in the letters.
Starting point is 00:47:02 By this time, the copycat phenomenon had kicked in, and yet another letter was received containing racist threats and apparently not related to the other two letters. Michael Lowe, Grand Dragon of another tiny Houston-based KKK faction, was interviewed by the Houston Chronicle. He said his clan group is opposed to the use of threatening letters or violence. Warren Deleuir, publisher of a left-wing alternative paper, West Virginia Advocate, was found dead in his garage in July 1992, a victim of a gunshot wound. Deleur's outspoken attacks on the KKK were a matter of public record as he challenged its members to come out from behind their robes, hoods, and masks. consequently the KKK found written on the walls of his home with a marker seemed certain to implicate the clan in his death. A police investigation soon cleared up the attempted hoax.
Starting point is 00:47:53 Police spokesmen were quoted as saying that the 60-year-old publisher destroyed over failing health and criticism of his newspaper committed suicide. Forensic evidence and examination of the scene compelled police corporal D.B. Burkart to observe that the results indicate Mr. Duhir died. results of a self-inflicted gunshot wound with his own gun. A source said that there was an error of mystery about DeLure, and I think he wanted to get out the same way. Kenneth Dowerty, an employee at the University of San Diego, told police in February 1992 that three white skinheads had attacked him at an automated teller machine after he had deposited his paycheck. His original account was that he fought a single skinhead but was overwhelmed when two other skinheads beat and kicked him while shouting racial epithets. Darity, a Black Gulf War Navy veteran, claimed no one in the parking
Starting point is 00:48:50 lot would come to his help, and a nearby bicycle shop refused to allow him to make a 911 call to police. Finally, he said he flagged down a patrol car, but the officers refused to take a report of the hate crime. Media accounts of the incident brought an orgy of sympathy and offers of financial assistance. A San Diego Police Department internal investigation, however, concluded that Darity had made up the entire incident, according to assistant police Chief Dave Warden, after an exhaustive investigation into the matter, we believe that his claims were outright fabrications. We have conclusive evidence it did not happen. No one's already a claim to have talked with or who witnessed the incident could confirm the attack, including the clerk
Starting point is 00:49:30 at the bicycle shop. Police could not locate a single witness from the allegedly crowded parking lot, nor the police officer that was supposedly flagged down. In New York City, Louis Watkins, 25 of black man claimed he had been beaten in January 1992 by five white men in a white van. One man allegedly got out and pushed him to the ground. Then others got out and began kicking Watkins, using racial slurs, and referring to an earlier abduction and rape of a 15-year-old white girl by two black men. New York Mayor David Dinkins took the opportunity to the issue an unusually harsh statement condemning racism in the absolutely senseless, absolutely appalling act of bias violence.
Starting point is 00:50:11 the police investigation became high priority. A few hours later, however, Mayor Dinkins retracted a statement after police officials voiced doubts about that the attack even occurred. Watkins, it turned out, had made two previous unfounded reports of beatings at the hands of white men and white vans. Dickens Press Secretary Leland T. Jones commented, It's hard to condemn something that didn't happen. If the price of a retraction is a biased incident that did not occur, we'll pay the price
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Starting point is 00:52:21 Richard Savino, a white Staten Island, New York homeowner, was visiting his parents in Delaware, New York, when police called with news that his house trailer was on fire. Savino had been trying to sell the trailer for six months. On one occasion, he had shown it to a black couple. Subsequently, his car was vandalized, and racial slurs were painted on the trailer. He also claimed to have received
Starting point is 00:52:40 threatening telephone calls. At the time of the fire, the slogan, now sell to ends, was found spray painted on a wall. The police classified the incident as a bias-related hate crime. However, other residents in the neighborhood were puzzled at the course of events.
Starting point is 00:52:56 The development has black, Indian, Chinese, and Hispanic residents. The president of the Meadow Brook Civic Association said, we don't think it's a bias situation. We have a multiracial community here. On October 31st, 1991, police arrested Savino himself for the crime. He was charged with arson, conspiracy, insurance fraud, reckless endangerment of property, and false reporting of an incident, according to police sergeant Edward Burns.
Starting point is 00:53:24 A black man, Oliver Mason III, had allegedly received a racial hate letter and was served a dead mouse and broken glass in an omelet at an Annapolis, Maryland restaurant. He was hospitalized briefly after the incident. Mason had also complained of being a victim of racism at the Annapolis Holiday Inn where he operated a gift shop. Mason was hospitalized again on April 25, 1991, after he was found in a men's restroom with an electric cord around his neck and the words, sorry N, written on the door. That's kind of polite. Mason told police someone had looped the cord around his neck. juicy
Starting point is 00:54:07 juicy smolette Mason was subsequently arrested in charge with filing a false report and hindering a police investigation police spokesman Florence Stephan said investigators had determined that Mason had written the hate letter he had reportedly reported receiving
Starting point is 00:54:23 in a 1986 case a St. Charles Missouri black girl Bridget Clark 14 told their parents had two white men had thrown acid on her and shouted racial slurs as she walked home from school the black community was in an up uproar. A police investigation revealed that the acid was actually the results of an accident at a summer job where the girl spilled chemicals on our arm causing first degree burns. She made up the
Starting point is 00:54:47 story on her way home, her mother, Shirley Clark, said. According to news reports, Mrs. Clark said Bridget, who had been doing cleaning work at Duchenne High School through a federal jobs program, would be transferred to work at another school. The headlines in the February 6, 1993, All right, a bunch of people have contacted me. Is it Olitha, Kansas? Or am I just saying it wrong on purpose because a bunch of people contacted me? The headlines in the February 6, 1993,
Starting point is 00:55:22 Olathe, Kansas Daily News, were stark and explicit. Bandal Scraw's racist message on House. Under the photograph of a black woman standing besides the hate message, ends go home. was the caption. Edna Mitchell was surprised and sad in Friday morning to find a racist remark written on the front of her Spring Hill home.
Starting point is 00:55:42 It makes you feel violated, she said. Rosemary Jackson Mitchell's sister was with her when they discovered the graffiti. She said, my seven-year-old daughter was screaming and crying, Mama, how can somebody do this? They were dumb enough to leave their footprints and their spelling was wrong. Later, media accounts told of the Mitchell family
Starting point is 00:56:00 being driven from Spring Hill. She reported harassing telephone. calls. They called and told us they were going to kill our kids. They said we were getting too much publicity, Mitchell said. Local authority sprang into action. Spring Hill police stopped children on their way home from school for questioning. Mayor Mary Lavery said she was shocked, dismayed. In the 20 years, Lavery had lived in Spring Hill. This is the first time she had heard of a racial incident. An anti-racist witch hunt was brewing. Coincidentally, in nearby Olitha, Kansas, employees of the Olathay Water Department had been disciplined for possessing and sharing racially offensive religious
Starting point is 00:56:40 literature. The story percolated in the local news media for a couple of weeks and was reported statewide in the large circulation Kansas City Star. Olathe and AACP leader Sue Cartwright said the distributors of dangerous literature should be reprimanded, fired. Responding to the opportunity for further notoriety, a tiny KKK grouplet from a rural Kansas community passed out flyers and a couple dozen houses in the city. Community leaders were aghast. All of a sudden, the community was sensitized, and townspeople were speculating about who might be responsible about the Mitchell incident. And then the bubble burst. On March 9th, police charged Mitchell with two counts of making false police reports, a class A misdemeanor in Kansas. Authorities accused her of inventing
Starting point is 00:57:27 several stories as she was being harassed in the community, including her account of the racial slur on the wall of her home. Spring Hill Police Sergeant Hugh Grossman said, we took this seriously, we wanted to find out who did it because it was such a terrible thing for the city to live down. We were just surprised at the outcome. Charles A. Lewis, a Black Bay oral candidate in Jacksonville, North Carolina, found the words, no vote, N, in pink spray paint on his house on August 9, 1991. A front page story in the local newspaper depicted Lewis as a victim of a racial hate crime and photographed him standing in front of his vandalized. home. Lewis portrayed the incident as an attempt to discourage his candidacy. If they can
Starting point is 00:58:09 discourage me from running by acts of aggression or other forms of hatred, that's what they will do. But it won't stop us. Does he have a mouse in his pocket? There is more to the story. Lewis contacted police with the claim that he was being blackmailed. Some woman had made up a story to the effect that Lewis had paid two men to deface his house, he claimed, and she was threatening to tell unless he paid her $2,000. Police initially believed Lewis and set up a sting operation to entrap the woman. Under electronic surveillance, Lewis met with the woman and paid her $500. Police moved in and arrested the blackmailer.
Starting point is 00:58:43 However, the same woman had gone to the county sheriff's office and confessed that she was planning to extort money from Lewis. She insisted that Lewis had asked friends to paint the racial slur on his house so he could capitalize on victim status. Police contacted the men who confirmed the story and arrested Lewis when he visited one of the men. Lewis subsequently confessed to the hate crime hoax. Lewis, who had previous convictions for larceny and bad checks remained in the race, and incredibly, despite his confession of the police, continued to profess his innocence. He lost the election.
Starting point is 00:59:15 I find that Ards believe. I think today he'd probably fucking win. At California's March Air Force base, the dormitory doors of the 22nd Security Police Squadron was covering what racial and sexual slurs in Red Marker. The slogans found on October 8, 1992, included stay what your own kind and KKK. Although both white and black air police
Starting point is 00:59:40 black air police officers slept in the dormitory, only the rooms of blacks were defaced. Within a week, military police had charged a black military policeman, airman first class Ivory Lee Scott 28, an 18-month Air Force veteran with seven counts, including damaging government property, making racial and sexual slurs, obstruction of justice by tampering with three witnesses and two counts of making false statements
Starting point is 01:00:09 in another matter. The arrest followed a week-long investigation by wing commander, Brigadier General Don Jensen, who uncovered the hoax. They had to bring a brigadier general in to uncover the hoax. Give me a fucking break. Police informants are often unstable and unreliable, particularly in matters involving alleged hate crimes, even in cases where they're not trying to save their own necks. may fabricate stories for no other reason than to feel important. Such a case occurred involving
Starting point is 01:00:38 the notorious anti-black and anti-Jewish Aryan Nations organization in Idaho. To the credulous mind, there is little that one could say of Aryan nations that wouldn't be believed. Few organizations have received more publicity entirely out of proportion to their objective importance than this small group. Not that the group hasn't sought out such publicity, mind you. Nevertheless, the media have sensationalized a group to the point where any news about them becomes big news. Based on the account by a former informant, FBI agents approached Marshall Mend, a Jewish real estate man in Cordelaine, Idaho, with the news that a group of white racists had conspired to do him in, along with Bill Wassmouth, a former Catholic priest.
Starting point is 01:01:24 Both men had been active in campaign against Aryan nations and other white racist activists in their community. The informant Dan Bordner, who had infiltrated Aryan nations, had been dropped by the Bureau after FBI agents came to doubt his credibility, also claimed that a synagogue bombing had been planned for nearby Spokane. Later, the FBI acknowledged the plot that the plot was sheer fiction. David Hill of the FBI office in Seattle said the bottom line is we found there was no substance to the allegations. Apparently, however, Bordner, acting as an informant, actually tried to get a conspiracy of that nature going. According to February 1992 news reports, sources close to the investigation said FBI electronic surveillance at area nations revealed no instance where anyone in the group talked about the plot except the informant Dan Bordner. Nobody else ever mentioned the threat, one source said.
Starting point is 01:02:17 When the FBI gave Bordner lie detector tests, he flunked big time. Floyd Cochran, at whose home the group met and who freely admits his membership in Aryan Nations, said that the whole thing was a fiction of Mr. Bordner. Cochran's home was searched by the FBI and the strength of Bordner's allegations. No incriminating evidence of any kind was turned up. The FBI suspects that Bordner fabricated the account in order to promote a future book. I think I'm going to stop right there. This is the part I warned you about in the beginning where it's just going to be one thing after another. But I think it's important because it really just goes to show you that when something,
Starting point is 01:03:00 really does happen when there is, like, actual, like, violence against a black person by someone white and it's racially motivated. It's so out of the friggin ordinary. I mean, it is truly the exception that proves the rule that most people just don't fucking care. They just want to go to work and be left alone and not be hated. And that includes everyone pretty much. But Some people get off and make money and get notoriety and get famous on saying that they're being victimized, where a lot of people nowadays can say they are victimized. There's a whole fucking slew of this country, section of this country. Right now that doesn't have power, there's flooding, there's everything.
Starting point is 01:04:00 and government, the people who should, the government who, the one fucking job that they have, they're not willing to do because they hate those people. They hate Appalachians. And the fact that there are black people included in the victim group doesn't matter to them. The fact is it's freaking white appellations
Starting point is 01:04:26 and they hate them. That's a real victim group. Don't be afraid to fucking call yourself a victim when you are a victim. Here's a whole list of people who just make shit up. I'm sure you noticed that there are ads in this. If you want to get the episodes early and ad-free, all of them, head on over to freemammyonthe-wall.com forward slash support. Patreon and substack will get your RSS feeds.
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