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A John 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, police said.
Maurita Bryant, the assistant chief of the police department's investigations division, said Todd is being charged with making a false police report.
Police doubted her story from the start, Bryant said.
"She just opened up and said she wanted to tell the truth," Bryant said, according to the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. "She was upset with the media for blowing this into a political firestorm."
Todd, who is white, initially told police she was attacked by a 6-foot-4 black man Wednesday night.
She 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 said she handed the assailant $60 and walked away.
Todd claimed that she suspected the man then noticed a 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.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cops-mccain-worker-made-up-attack-story/
RockRaven
(14,974 posts)although not as good of an example because he had a stunt POTUS run as a Democrat in the 80s, he'd be a Repuke today -- misogynistic (and prolife), racist, homophobic, ableist, financially irresonsible, serial liar.
Drifter
(4,751 posts)This moron scratch the letter "B" on her face in a mirror.
So the "B" was backwards (unless you looked at it in the mirror).
Cheers
Drifter
FakeNoose
(32,645 posts)It doesn't concern him or anyone in his family.
So....
tazkcmo
(7,300 posts)F@ck off.
JaneQPublic
(7,113 posts)...but couldn't remember the the young woman's name.
But as I recall at the time, before it even was revealed as a hoax, an undercurrent of GOP discussion was, "See? Having a black president will only empower all these urban thugs and street gangs to run wild over innocent white folks."
They didn't call it "reverse hate crimes," but it seems that's what they were describing.