https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/fake-hate-virginia-girl-admits-she-made-up-hair-cut-assault/
It’s been a running gag at Instapundit for years now that if it weren’t for fake hate crimes, there’d be hardly any hate crimes at all. So it probably shouldn’t come as a huge surprise to learn that yet another fake hate crime allegation has been proven false.
It was all over the major papers late last week, when 12-year-old Amari Allen, a black student, claimed that three white boys held her down and forcibly cut some of her dreadlocks at their Christian school.
Wiser bloggers demurred from covering the story until more information could come to light.
Yet the NYT and other outlets breathlessly reported the sixth-grader’s accusation in a phone interview. “They put me on the ground,” she claimed. “One of them put my hands behind my back. One put his hands over my mouth. One cut my hair. They were saying that my hair was ugly, that it was nappy.” And Twitter was all lit up because of the supposed Mike Pence connection — his wife Karen teaches at the Immanuel Christian School where the assault never happened.
3 white boys allegedly cut black girl’s dreadlocks at Christian school where Karen Pence teaches https://t.co/mtQl2mz9yf
— Daily Kos (@dailykos) September 30, 2019
No, they didn’t. The girl recanted. Nevertheless, school principal Stephen Danish released a statement this morning bemoaning the “tremendous pain for the victims and the hurt on both sides of this conflict.”
Both sides? Did Allen’s feelings get hurt when she had to retract her false accusation?
