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| Subject: U. Michigan student admits to hoax she said was linked to post-election ‘surge in hate crimes’ Fri Mar 10, 2017 12:20 am | |
| The University of Michigan is dealing with yet another ersatz hate crime, this time in the form of a 21-year-old student who back in mid-November had claimed a man scratched her face due to her wearing a “solidarity [safety] pin.”
Michigan Live reports Halley Bass pled guilty to one count of “false report of a misdemeanor” on Monday.
Bass told the judge she was embarrassed by a visible scratch she herself had made with the pin. The story she then concocted was that the assault “was part of the surge in hate crimes following the election of Donald Trump.”
Bass says she was suffering from depression at the time.
http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/31569/
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