This is one of the most disturbing pieces of news I've read in a while. I'm embarassed that there is yet another crazy white woman in the news lying about being attacked, no less doing it for racist/political reasons. http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/10/reports-mccain.html PITTSBURGH (Oct. 24) - A McCain campaign volunteer made up a story of being robbed, pinned to the ground and having the letter "B" scratched on her face in a politically inspired attack, police said Friday. Ashley Todd, 20-year-old college student from College Station, Texas, admitted Friday that the story was false and was being charged with making a false report to police, said Maurita Bryant, the assistant chief of the police department's investigations division. Police doubted her story from the start, Bryant said. Todd, who is white, told police she was attacked by a 6-foot-4 black man Wednesday night. She now can't explain why she invented the story, Bryant said. Todd also told police she believes she cut the backward "B" onto her own cheek, but she didn't explain how or why, Bryant said. Todd initially told investigators she was attempting to use a bank branch ATM when the man approached her from behind, put a knife with a 4- to 5-inch blade to her throat and demanded money. She told police she handed the assailant $60 and walked away. Todd told investigators that she suspected the man then noticed a John McCain sticker on her car, became angry and punched her in the back of the head, knocking her to the ground and telling her "you are going to be a Barack supporter," police said. She said he continued to punch and kick her while threatening "to teach her a lesson for being a McCain supporter," police said. She said he then sat on her chest, pinned her hands down with his knees and scratched a backward letter "B" into her face with a dull knife. Todd told police she didn't seek medical attention, but instead went to a friend's apartment nearby and called police about 45 minutes later. The Associated Press could not immediately locate Todd's family. Bryant said somebody charged with making a false report would typically be cited and sent a summons. But because police have concerns about Todd's mental health, they are consulting with the Allegheny County District Attorney. Todd remained in custody, and police were preparing to charge her with making a false report to police. "We had some serious cases going on, and this wasted so much time," Bryant said. "Our detectives have been working through the night just to verify the information we suspected was false from the beginning." Todd worked in New York for the College Republican National Committee before moving two weeks ago to Pennsylvania, where her duties included recruiting college students, the committee's executive director, Ethan Eilon, has said. Eilon declined to comment on the investigation Friday or to help The Associated Press contact Todd. Earlier Friday, police said they had found inconsistencies in Todd's story. They gave her a lie-detector test, but wouldn't release the polygraph results. Investigators also said bank surveillance photos did not back up the woman's initial story of being attacked at an ATM. Police interviewed Todd after she contacted police Wednesday night and again on Thursday, Bryant said. They asked her to come back Friday, ostensibly to help police put together a sketch of the man. Instead, detectives began interviewing her. "They just started talking to her and she just opened up and said she wanted to tell the truth," Bryant said. Bryant said it doesn't appear that anyone else put the woman up to the false report. Police suspected all along that Todd might not be telling the truth, starting with the fact that the "B" was backward, Bryant said. "We have robbers here in Pittsburgh, but they don't generally mutilate someone's face like that," Bryant said. "They just take the money and run."
There should be a name for this kind of infliction. Take a look at this story about a Emory University student here in Atlanta: http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C0CEFD8143FF931A15757C0A966958260 Turns out it was all made up. The student staged the whole incident. Ironically, shortly afterwards, the head of the Atlanta chapter of the NAACP said that so long as the incident highlighted the pressures that blacks face on mainly-white campuses, “it doesn’t matter to me whether she did it or not.” Wow.
Maybe shit like that would have worked in the 60's Hmm,i wonder how many Black men were lynched back in the day as a result of a white woman crying wolf?
I'll bet she got in a fight with her boyfriend and he carved the B in her face for Bitch, and maybe she's married or some other reason she doesn't want anyone to know the truth, so she had to make up a lie. No one thinks of Obama's name as starting with a B anyway. Sadly, this is the worse kind of lie, because it's based on pure racism.
The Lie In the past thousands of black men have died from such lies. If a case like this happened back then any black man found on the street would have been hung.
Ha. I bet that shit did happen. I like how the story is always, "I was attacked by a BIG black man". They are always well over 6 feet n' shit.
Thank God nobody believes her, and she has not admitted to making it up. I think we'll never know the truth, that is if her bf did it, unless there is a repeat performance.
