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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234. According to a lawsuit filed against Michigan Tech, the university wrongfully expelled a student aft... 2015-11-01 Houghton MI http://campusreform.org/?ID=8116 'Poster boy for white hatred' sues Michigan Tech for scapegoating him / Matthew Schultz, a student, wrote “Gonna shoot all black people…….. A smile tomorrow.” Another student allegedly sent a screenshot the post on YikYak to the police, but altered so it only showed the fi / 2016-09-09
232. Julian Kinzel alleged in January that right wing extremists slashed him 17 times with a knife while ... 2016-01-01 Wismar http://www.tagesspiegel.de/politik/verdacht-des-vor... Messerattacke offenbar erfunden - linker Jungpolitiker wird angeklagt / The prosecutor says Julian Kinzel slashed himself with a knife and made out it was neo-Nazis that did it. / 2016-07-15
230. Los Angeles Sheriff's Department has charged Calum McSwiggan with making a false police report after... 2016-06-27 Los Angeles CA http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/30/youtube-... YouTube personality in 'gay hate crime attack' charged with making false police report after 'faking injuries' / A man said he was assaulted outside a West Hollywood club has been charged with filing a false police report and faking his injuries. London-native Calum McSwiggan – who runs a LGBT and lifestyl
225. Gay pastor falsely accused Whole Foods of adding Homophobic Slur to cake he ordered. 2016-04-01 Austin TX http://www.businessinsider.com/pastor-drops-lawsuit... Pastor admits he lied about a Whole Foods incident that caused a public outcry / In a statement on Monday, Brown said: The company did nothing wrong. I was wrong to pursue this matter and use the media to perpetuate this story. I want to apologize to Whole Foods and its team mem / 2016-05-17
224. The article says the family issued an apology and said that his account of the incident was inconsis... 2016-01-16 Iowa City Iowa http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/FBI-Assault-near-U... FBI: Assault near University of Iowa campus not hate crime / It was reported as a hate crime but the FBI determined that it was not. / 2016-05-16
222. Black students at Salisbury University drew a lynched stick figure accompanied by the words "nigger"... 2016-04-27 Salisbury Maryland http://college.usatoday.com/2016/04/27/black-studen... Black students connected in SU racist drawing / Black students drew a lynched stick figure accompanied by the words "nigger" and "#whitepower" in Salisbury University's library. / 2016-04-27
221. Black woman later convicted of sending hat tweets. 2015-11-18 Union New Jersey https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-admits-tweeting-fa... Woman admits tweeting fake threats to fellow black students / Kayla McKelvey, a former leader of a black student group pleaded guilty to creating a false public alarm by tweeting anonymous threats against fellow black college students at Kean University last fall / 2016-04-19
219. Kayla McKelvey pleaded guilty to sending threats to other black students to inspire them to attend a... 2015-11-16 Elizabeth NJ https://www.yahoo.com/news/woman-admits-tweeting-fa... Woman admits tweeting fake threats to fellow black students / Kayla McKelvey, a former leader of a black student group pleaded guilty to creating a false public alarm by tweeting anonymous threats against fellow black college students at Kean University last fall / 2016-04-19
218. The world's media reported a Muslim woman who was run over in Molenbeek, Belgium, as a victim of a h... 2016-04-01 Molenbeek Brussels http://www.breitbart.com/london/2016/04/04/exposed-... Molenbeek ‘Far Right’ Hit And Run Was Muslim-On-Muslim Attack / The world's media reported a Muslim woman who was run over in Molenbeek, Belgium, as a victim of a hate crime. In fact, she was hit by a drunk called "Mohammed". The media included the New York Post / 2016-04-04
217. Video from the bus and witnesses falsify the three black students' claim of being the victims of a r... 2016-01-30 Albany NY http://www.timesunion.com/tuplus-local/article/Chur... Churchill: UAlbany bus attack story isn't holding up / Three black students claimed to be victims of a racial attack on a bus. The evidence seems to show otherwise. / 2016-02-09
215. Devout Muslim attendee of a Houston mosque was arrested after torching it on Christmas Day. 2016-01-01 Houston TX https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/acts-of-faith/w... Suspect in Houston mosque fire claims to have prayed there five times a day, police say / Gary Nathaniel Moore, a black Muslim attendee of a Houston mosque, was arrested for torching the Mosque he previously attended. / 2015-12-30
214. Kayla-Simone McKelvey, 24, of Union was charged by summons with third-degree creating a false public... 2016-06-30 Union NJ http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2015/12/arrest_ma... Twitter threats to black Kean students made by black alum, police say / A threat was made to kill black students. Police say it was a black woman faking a hate crime. / 2015-12-01
213. Black student threatened to shoot other black students on campus 2015-11-13 Saginaw MI http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2015/11... Yik Yak threat at SVSU said, 'I'm going to shoot every black person I can on campus' / Police at Saginaw Valley State University say a threat posted on the social media site Yik Yak read, "I'm going to shoot every black person I can on campus. Starting tomorrow morning." The message t / 2015-11-17
195. "We are in the victims business" 2012-10-24 Madison WI http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/30/kyle-wood-... Kyle Wood Assault 'Unfounded,' As Wisconsin Volunteer Recants Claim Of Hate Crime Attack / Madison Police Capt. Joe Balles notes that the Republican staffer could face criminal prosecution for the false reporting of a hate crime, but that the department also does not want to deter residents / 2012-10-30
193. A white Portland woman burned her own face with acid and claimed a black woman had committed the cri... 2010-02-03 Portland OR http://www.cbsnews.com/news/acid-attack-hoax-why-di... Acid Attack Hoax: Why Did She Say Attacker Was Black? / Bethany Storro, the Portland woman who claimed that an unknown black woman threw acid in her face, yesterday admitted she'd made up the story. / 2010-09-17
190. Investigators looking into an alleged racist hate crime aimed at an eight-grade football player, rep... 2013-12-05 Lunenburg MA http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/12/05/investig... You’ll Never Guess Who Is the Police’s Prime Suspect in Racist ‘Hate Crime’ Against Half-Black Eighth-Grade Football Player / Investigators looking into an alleged racist hate crime aimed at an eight-grade football player in Lunenburg, Mass., reportedly have just one suspect — the boy’s mother. / 2013-12-05
189. A series of alleged fake hate crimes - the details can be found in Matt Walsh's story 2013-12-05 Boston MA http://themattwalshblog.com/2013/12/06/the-fake-hat... The (fake) Hate Crime Epidemic / A summary of some recent fake hate crimes, plus some other examples of exaggeration of oppression / 2013-12-06
188. Man falsely claimed he was beaten/robbed and slur written on forehead 2013-12-24 Paris TN http://www.parispi.net/articles/2013/12/24/news/loc... PARIS TN: Healthy Thyme health food store assault story in doubt / A man who told police he had been robbed and beaten at a Paris health food store a few days before Thanksgiving was arrested after he allegedly withheld information about the incident and has now been / 2013-12-26
187. 2013-12-04 Vassar NY http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/12/hate-hoax-a... HATE HOAX at Vassar College: Transsexual Busted in Fake Hate Scam (Video) / Reports of bias incidents at Vassar College that involved hateful messages left on students’ doors were actually elaborate hoaxes — and the perpetrator is none other than the student member of the Bias / 2013-12-04
186. A woman wrote a homophobic reason not to give a tip on a receipt in the restaurant where she worked.... 2013-12-07 Bridgewater NJ http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2013/12/lesbian-wai... Lesbian Waitress Who Reported Fake Hate Crime Is Fired / Dayna Morales claimed to be the victim of anti-lesbian discrimination. The customers came forward and showed that the original receipt included a tip, contrary to her claim that they refused a tip beca / 2013-12-07
184. Various alleged hate crime hoaxes, some of them proven. 2013-03-06 Oberlin OH http://dailycaller.com/2013/08/22/meet-the-privileg... Meet the privileged Obama-supporting white kids who perpetrated cruel Oberlin race hoax / One of the two students removed from Oberlin College earlier this year for allegedly circulating virulently racist, anti-Jewish and anti-gay messages around campus belongs to an anti-racist group calle / 2013-08-22
182. A list of alleged fake crimes and reasons for the suspicion 2012-10-30 Washington DC http://www.huffingtonpost.com/tag/fake-hate-crime Fake Hate Crimes / A list of recent alleged fake hate crimes / 2012-10-30
181. Olander D. Cuthrell, a black minister, has confessed to writing graffiti on his car and house, setti... 2013-03-15 Chesterfield VA http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/04/04/police-va... Police: Va. Minister Painted Racial Slurs on House Before Setting It On Fire / Olander D. Cuthrell, a minister, has been charged with painting graffiti on his car and house and setting the house on fire, making out it was a racially motivated crime. / 2013-04-04
179. No serious attempt to establish if hate crimes are rising. 2013-03-01 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21883151 Most US hate crime not reported, justice statistics say / "Nearly two in three hate crimes in the US are not reported to police as victims doubt police can or will help, justice department statistics showed. Experts said the data comes amid a rise in the n / 2013-03-21
175. At the time of a campaign to rid the University of Oregon of a group which hosted holocaust deniers,... 2010-02-05 Eugene OR http://www.katu.com/news/local/83733262.html Student claims further anti-Semitism at UO / Campus officials said someone posted a note with an anti-Semitic message on a student's locker. The note was found Thursday morning in its School of Architecture and Allied Arts, and University of Oreg / 2010-02-06
168. Maybe Nazis enter colleges and paint swastikas on walls. Maybe not. There were several such incident... 2010-02-21 Portland OR http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2010/... Police investigate swastika vandalism at University of Oregon in Eugene / A swastika was painted on the carpet in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans Queer Alliance in the middle of the night at the University of Oregon. A controversial discussion group called "Pacifica Forum / 2010-02-01
164. A swastika was found at the height of a political campaign to persuade the university to bar a group... 2010-02-01 Eugene OR http://www.oregonlive.com/education/index.ssf/2010/... Police investigate swastika vandalism at University of Oregon in Eugene / A swastika was painted on the carpet in the Lesbian Gay Bisexual Trans Queer Alliance in the middle of the night at the University of Oregon. A controversial discussion group called "Pacifica Forum / 2010-02-01
154. A campus officer brought KKK flyers to school to make others aware that such material was being circ... 1992-01-01 San Bernadino CA

137. Not really a hate crime. An Islamophobic flyer was produced by leftists, falsely claiming to be from... 2007-10-01 Washington DC http://michellemalkin.com/2007/10/09/the-left-fakes... The left fakes the hate at GWU / This is a hoax, but not a fake hate crime. Michelle Malkin shows that humorlessness is not limited to the left. "This fake flyer attributed to the Young America’s Foundation chapter at GWU was manuf / 2007-10-09
135. Sarah Marshak, a student at George Washington University, was caught on tape painting swastikas on h... 2007-10-01 Washington DC http://michellemalkin.com/2007/11/05/gwu-student-jo... GWU student journalist admits hate crime hoax / Another fake antisemitic campus hate crime: Sarah Marshak claimed to have drawn three swastikas on her George Washingon University campus room door, to draw attention to the administration's inattentio / 2007-11-05
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