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This week's Hoax


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2020 Jun 28, 1:08pm   791 views  19 comments

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An 18-year-old Black woman says she was attacked with lighter fluid and flame early Wednesday morning by white men yelling racial slurs. She sustained second- and third-degree burns.

Althea Bernstein works as an EMT while studying to be a paramedic and firefighter. She says she was on her way to her brother’s house at around 1 am Wednesday when she reached a stoplight on Gorham Street near State Street in downtown Madison. She doesn’t remember for sure which intersection it was.

“I was listening to some music at a stoplight and then all of a sudden I heard someone yell the N-word really loud,” she said in an interview Wednesday. “I turned my head to look and somebody’s throwing lighter fluid on me. And then they threw a lighter at me, and my neck caught on fire and I tried to put it out, but I brushed it up onto my face. I got it out and then I just blasted through the red light … I just felt like I needed to get away. So I drove through the red light and just kept driving until I got to my brother and Middleton.”

A police incident report says the assailants used a spray bottle to spray lighter fluid on her face.

She said she’s reasonably certain it was four white men who “looked like classic Wisconsin frat boys … Two of them were wearing all black, and then the other two were wearing jeans and a floral shirt,” she said. She said the way they walked made her think they were intoxicated.

She said she was aware that protests had been happening, but wasn’t participating. Protests following the arrest of Yeshua Musa were just winding down at around 1 am Wednesday.

https://madison365.com/black-woman-attacked-by-men-wielding-lighter-fluid-racial-slurs/


I betcha what actually happened is 180 from this.

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1   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 28, 1:12pm  

Her Molotov cocktail backfired.
2   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jun 28, 1:29pm  

Strange to have "Burns" (look more like road rash) on the opposite side of your face that would be turned towards the driver's side window.
3   Onvacation   2020 Jun 28, 2:05pm  

From the article:

Bernstein said she was advised not to contact police right away “because I was high as a kite”


Looks like wounds came from a cheap lighter exploding after overheating while lighting her crack pipe.
4   Onvacation   2020 Jun 28, 2:06pm  

But it could be random frat dudes who were bored and decided to go down to the corner and flame-throw on random people of color.
5   MisdemeanorRebel   2020 Jun 28, 2:11pm  

Was at the protest and was either pointing fireworks at people or was targeted by them because she was light skinned.
6   RWSGFY   2020 Jun 28, 2:59pm  

NoCoupForYou says
the other two were wearing jeans and a floral shirt


Two guys wearing one shirt?
7   HeadSet   2020 Jun 29, 6:53am  

ABC Nightly News prominently featured this story, many times pointing out she was "bi-racial" lest anyone think she was white. Also mentioned "4 WHITE" males several times, nothing about the males being drunk, though. Wonder if there will be much airtime when this story is exposed as a hoax.
8   georgeliberte   2020 Jun 29, 7:02am  

"looked like classic Wisconsin frat boys" Stereotype much?
Based on my experience as a classic Washington frat boy (?) that is not the kind of thing frat boys get up to, and especially not in Wisconsin.
9   georgeliberte   2020 Jun 29, 7:02am  

"looked like classic Wisconsin frat boys" Stereotype much?
Based on my experience as a classic Washington frat boy (?) that is not the kind of thing frat boys get up to, and especially not in Wisconsin.
10   georgeliberte   2020 Jun 29, 8:17am  

Rachel Dolezal?
12   komputodo   2020 Jun 29, 10:39am  

Luckily she didn't have JERRY CURL JUICE in her hair. Has she started a GO FUND ME account yet?
13   komputodo   2020 Jun 29, 10:41am  

Then they threw a lighter at her.....must have been a ZIPPO..lol...disposables dont stay lit
14   Tenpoundbass   2020 Jun 29, 10:48am  

I bet she's been in 4 ways but still has never had black dick.
15   georgeliberte   2020 Jun 29, 12:17pm  

One again probably the same guys who attacked Jussie Smollett
16   komputodo   2020 Jun 29, 12:36pm  

whenever i see pictures of young women like that, I usually think: when I was that age, would I have done her? for her, the answer would be HELL NO.
17   Ceffer   2020 Jun 29, 1:03pm  

She probably got a clump of eyeliner stuck in her contact and had a Racial Borderline Personality meltdown hallucination.
18   Automan Empire   2020 Jun 29, 3:31pm  

I work with flammable liquids in a hazardous occupation. I've dealt with flash fires right in my face, and burning liquid on my skin. I've had half my hair and an eyebrow singed off by fluids flashing into flame.

Looking at the picture, that absolutely does NOT match up with her description of what happened. The burn pattern is unlikely to happen through a driver side window. Her hair would be singed down to the skin on the right half of her head. There would be blisters.

These look more like the type of burns fireworks make, after you've cleaned the bluish-white residue off and it's had half a day or more to start scabbing up.
19   Onvacation   2020 Jun 29, 3:55pm  

Automan Empire says

Looking at the picture, that absolutely does NOT match up with her description of what happened.

Doesn't matter. The story of WHITE MALE RACIST attackers fit the narrative. IF she is proven fraudulent the matter will quietly be dropped but the story of

"...I heard someone yell the N-word really loud,” she said in an interview Wednesday. “I turned my head to look and somebody’s throwing lighter fluid on me. And then they threw a lighter at me, and my neck caught on fire and I tried to put it out, but I brushed it up onto my face. ...

A police incident report says the assailants used a spray bottle to spray lighter fluid on her face.

She said she’s reasonably certain it was four white men who “looked like classic Wisconsin frat boys … Two of them were wearing all black, and then the other two were wearing jeans and a floral shirt,” she said. She said the way they walked made her think they were intoxicated.

Will become part of the narrative.

"Hands up, don't shoot!"

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