fakehatecrimes.org

fake hate crimes: a database of hate crime hoaxes in the usa

The purpose of this site is to compile a comprehensive database of the false reports of "hate crimes" committed (mostly) in the USA. It builds on the work of Laird Wilcox, whose Crying Wolf (PDF) is the original book on this subject. The books Hate Crime Hoax and Hate Crimes: Criminal Law & Identity Politics are recommended.

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360. An Ohio jury has ordered Oberlin College to pay $11 million to a bakery which said it was libeled an... 2016-11-01 Oberlin OH https://www.cnn.com/2019/06/09/us/oberlin-college-b... Ohio bakery awarded $11 million in libel lawsuit against Oberlin College over alleged racial profiling / Oberlin College is a major source of hate hoaxes. Go to http://fakehatecrimes.org/search and enter 'Oberlin'. The culture which encourages these fake crimes is illustrated by this article. Three black / 20
358. The man who set the fire, 47-year-old Andrew McClinton, is African-American and a member of the chur... 2016-11-02 Jackson MS https://www.dailywire.com/news/45335/mississippi-ma... Mississippi Man Pleads Guilty To Hate Crime Hoax SPLC Used To Slam Trump / Eventually, the SPLC had to append an Editor’s Note to its story, which reads in big bold letters: “In December 2016, a suspect, a member of the church, was arrested in connection with the crime, and a / 2019-03-30
357. A member of an African American church in Mississippi admitted setting the church on fire but never ... 2016-11-01 Jackson MS https://apnews.com/57e8b52fa44743a6b37f2c65fa97d7a4... DA: Man never admitted painting ‘Vote Trump’ in church arson / Andrew McClinton gave investigators varying accounts when he admitted setting the fire at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church in Greenville. / 2019-05-02
356. Police interviewed multiple people who witnessed the incident and said the straphanger was the aggre... 2019-05-26 New York NY https://nypost.com/2019/05/27/subway-rider-lied-abo... Facebook Twitter Flipboard Email Copy METRO Subway rider lied about anti-gay attack, was actually aggressor: cops / A Manhattan straphanger who claimed to have been attacked by two men yelling gay slurs was actually the one doing the attacking, according to police. / 2019-05-27
351. The police say LGBT activist Nikki Joly burned down his own house because he was annoyed there was n... 2017-08-01 Jackson MI https://metro.co.uk/2019/02/25/lgbt-activist-burned... LGBT activist ‘burned down his own home because he was annoyed there was no prejudice to campaign against’ / LGBT activist Nikki Joly's version of how he had spent the day meant there was only a five minute window for any arsonist to break into his home, douse it with fuel and set it ablaze. However, Joly
349. Jussie Smollett was allegedly attacked by Trump Supporters in Downtown Chicago. 2019-01-29 Chicago IL https://nypost.com/2019/02/11/jussie-smolletts-neig... Jussie Smollett’s neighbors cast doubt on his attack story / Meanwhile, Chicago police said Sunday that Smollett has yet to turn over data from his cellphone to verify that he was on the phone with his music manager, Brandon Moore, when he was allegedly attacked / 2019-02-11
348. Jussie Smollet was suppose to have been attacked by Trump supporters wearing a MAGA hat. None of his... 2019-01-29 Chicago Illinois https://nypost.com/2019/02/11/jussie-smolletts-neig... Jussie Smollett’s neighbors cast doubt on his attack story / Meanwhile, Chicago police said Sunday that Smollett has yet to turn over data from his cellphone to verify that he was on the phone with his music manager, Brandon Moore, when he was allegedly attacked / 2019-02-11
347. Not exactly a fake hate crime, but an outburst of hate against a group of white schoolchildren based... 2019-01-20 Washington DC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPiK_Tdh9Vg Native Activists Lied, Media Covered For Them in MAGA Incident / SJW reporters called for violence against the school students, who were peacefully opposing a group of black extremists calling them "faggots", etc.. The fake story went viral, and one of the students / 2019-01-21
345. In mid-November, a Drake University student told school officials she had received four racist notes... 2018-11-13 Des Moines Iowa https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-... Drake University officials: Four of the five racist notes found on campus were hoaxes / 2018-11-30
344. Black college lacrosse player, 21, is arrested for racist N-word and swastika graffiti targeting HIM... 2018-11-14 Towson Maryland https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6450101/Bl... Black college lacrosse player, 21, is arrested for racist N-word and swastika graffiti targeting HIMSELF and other minority students in two incidents that terrorized the campus / Black college lacrosse player, 21, is arrested for racist N-word and swastika graffiti targeting HIMSELF and other minority students
343. Black guy spray paints racist stuff and swastikas. Gets arrested because he was caught on camera. 2018-11-27 Antioch CA https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/11/27/man-suspecte... Man suspected of vandalizing Antioch with swastikas, other symbols, arrested following tips / Man suspected of vandalizing Antioch with swastikas, other symbols, arrested following tips Three city vehicles, a door at City Hall and a business were all spray-painted with racial slurs, vulgar wor / 2018-11-27
342. Racist slur on note pinned to student's door at Kansas State was written by the student herself 2018-11-05 Manhattan Kansas https://www.kansas.com/news/local/education/article... For second time in two years, racist slur at Kansas State was a hoax, police say / For the second time in two years, the person who reported a written racist slur found on or near Kansas State University has admitted that it was a hoax, police said. Officers on Monday received a r / 2018-11-08
336. Convicted of false claims of rape 2017-10-01 South Setauket NY http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/06/06/woman-pleads-g... Woman pleads guilty to making up rape allegations against two college football players / 2018-06-06
332. Most of these campus fake hate crimes or graffiti were committed by members of the minorities they a... 2017-11-01 Many US https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/40361/ Year in Review: 17 campus hate crimes that turned out to be hoaxes in 2017 / 17 campus hate crimes that turned out to be hoaxes in 2017. Most of them were committed by members of the minority the hate crime (or graffiti) appeared to target. / 2017-12-26
331. Investigators conclude alleged victim is the perpetrator. 2017-11-15 Aircraft Carrier George HW Bush Atlantic https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2017/12/08... Sailor staged racist vandalism, Navy says / Black sailor vandalizes his own rack with racial slurs. NCIS investigation concludes the alleged victim staged the vandalism himself. / 2017-12-08
330. Black male vandalized five black churches, for which there is video surveillance evidence for the la... 2017-11-25 Morristown New Jersey http://www.dailywire.com/news/23988/heres-latest-ha... Black man vandalized five black churches / Black male vandalized five black churches, for which there is video surveillance evidence for the latest string of "hate crimes" discovered to be a hoax. The suspect, Zuri C. Towns, apparently attended / 2017-11-27
329. “This is very much a white person issue that we need to tackle as white people and speak up against,... 2017-11-16 Chesterfield MO http://fox2now.com/2017/11/21/student-admits-to-wri... Student admits to writing racist message in high school bathroom / CHESTERFIELD, Mo. – Officials at Parkway Central High School said a student has confessed to writing a racial slur and the phrase ‘White Lives Matter’ on a mirror inside a campus bathroom. In an ema / 2017-11-21
327. Cadet candidate allegedly targeted by racism found responsible for act... 2017-09-25 Air Force Academy Colorado http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/07/hate-hoax-air-for... HATE HOAX: Air Force Academy Cadet Candidate Wrote Fake Racist Messages Himself / Racist messages written on a whiteboard at the Air Force Academy in September that made national news and inspired an impassioned speech from a lieutenant general were written by a student supposedly v / 2017-11-07
326. Racist graffiti that was painted on a car parked near Kansas State University last week turned out a... 2017-11-06 Kansas State U Kansas http://dailycaller.com/2017/11/06/k-state-hate-graf... Hate Graffiti Turns Out To Be — You Guessed It — A Hoax / Racist graffiti that was painted on a car parked near Kansas State University last week turned out a hoax, and was written by the car’s owner. The words “Go Home N***** Boy” and “Whites Only” were p / 2017-11-07
323. Candace Owens - 'RedPillBlack' - describes how a feminist tried to persuade her to abandon her onlin... 2016-04-27 New York NY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSAoitd1BTQ&t=2m The Rubin Report / Candace Owens - 'RedPillBlack' - describes how a feminist tried to persuade her to abandon her online project, to expose online bullies, because she would get threats from white supremacist men. Shortl / 2017-09-28
322. Eddie Curlin, a black man, was charged after spray painting racist graffiti targeting blacks at East... 2017-10-17 Ypsilanti MI https://articles.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf... Eastern Michigan racist graffiti suspect arraigned / Eddie Curlin, a black man, spray painted racist graffiti messages including “Leave N******” & “KKK” on Eastern Michigan University’s campus. / 2017-10-23
321. Ronald Alford is charged with painting a swastika inside Maryland University. He is African-American... 2017-10-05 College Park MD https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/37909/ Man charged in U. Maryland swastika vandalism is black former UMD employee / Most of the media failed to mention that the man charged with painting a swastika at the University of Maryland is black. / 2017-10-15
320. 2017-09-13 Covevill VA http://www.richmond.com/news/local/central-virginia... Court records: Ex-Petersburg city attorney made phony call to himself claiming racial threats to city leaders / Brian K. Telfair, a black former Petersburg City Attorney, racially threatened himself & other black city employees on Feb. 16, 2016. Telfair threatened from a phone that was purchased at his reque
319. After a Polish man died in a drunken fight in August last year, the media claimed it was a murder in... 2016-08-27 Harlow UK http://www.spiked-online.com/newsite/article/a-kill... A killing in Harlow: the shame of Remainers / Brendan O'Neill remembers the media-generated hysteria about the death of Arek Jozwik, a Polish man killed when a teenager hit him in a late night drunken fight - he fell over and his head hit the conc / 2017-09-15
318. Black student makes threats to other blacks and Mexicans via instagram. Found out he was black once... 2017-09-11 Philly PA https://downtrend.com/71superb/false-alarm-person-w... West Chester East student charged with making death threats to minority students / West Chester East student charged with making death threats to minority students / 2017-09-12
317. Flyers containing crude hatred of Muslims were distributed at George Washington University bearing t... 2017-09-11 Washington DC https://www.thecollegefix.com/post/36640/ Fake flyers portray conservative student group as anti-Muslim; police investigating / Someone distributed flyers at George Washington University which falsely claimed to be from Young America’s Foundation asking “Hate Muslims? So do we!!!” and promoting an “Islamo-fascism awareness week / 2017-09-11
316. "Victim" pled guilty 2017-02-10 Schenectady NY http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/New-York-man-admits-t... NEW YORK MAN ADMITS TO PAINTING SWASTIKAS ON HIS OWN HOME / 2017-09-06
315. The Sheridan Police Department stated that Joshua Witt, 26, admitted to making up a story, that he w... 2017-08-16 Sheridan Colorado http://www.9news.com/news/crime/victim-who-told-pol... Victim who told police he was stabbed due to 'Neo Nazi' haircut was lying, police say / The Sheridan Police Department stated that Joshua Witt, 26, admitted to making up a story, that he was stabbed after being mistaken for a neo-Nazi because of his haircut, when police confronted him wit / 2017-08-28
313. We don't know whether it is a hoax or not, but the author of the Guardian article about it does. 2017-08-05 Bloomington MN https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2016/12/16/upda... Update: 1,094 Bias-Related Incidents in the Month Following the Election / The SPLC estimates that just over 1% of reported hate crimes are fake / 2016-12-16
309. The police have arrested a 22 year old woman, Aisha Ismail, for setting fire to a mosque which she a... 2017-06-22 Des Moines IA http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/crime-a... Woman suspected of arson at Des Moines mosque / CNN: "Anonymous sources confirm Trump Inspired White Nationalist behind mosque arson". The police have now arrested a 22 year old woman, Aisha Ismail, who is probably not a white nationalist. / 2017-06-23
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