Stop me if you’ve heard this one: a minority college student reports being the victim of a hate crime…
You have? Then you probably know the ending, too: it turns out to have been a hoax.
Campus Reform has the details on Isaih Martin, a Texas A&M University senior who “found” notes on his car windshield bearing the messages “all lives matter” (which isn’t even hateful but liberals pretend it is) and “you don’t belong here,” as well as the N-word.
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Martin preened about how “hurtful” the notes were, and the university president Michael Young postured about how he was “tired of bigoted members of our community marring the experiences of students of color,” complete with a reward for information on the perpetrator.
Just one problem: the “victim” was the perpetrator:
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Texas A&M police reported Thursday that, based on surveillance video footage, Martin likely placed the notes on his car himself. Footage taken from nearby cameras shows that passers-by may have come close to Martin’s car, but were only near the vehicle for a few seconds.
The police report, obtained by KBTX, reads that Martin was seen moving around his vehicle, with two different “white specks” held in the area of his chest. The footage also showed him “stepping back and onto the sidewalk in front of his vehicle, most likely taking photos and videos. He then approaches his vehicle again on the passenger side and remains there for a few moments. He is then seen walking around the front of his vehicle. Martin then enters the driver’s door and drives away a few moments later. The total time spent at his vehicle is 1 minute, 15 seconds.”
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No one besides Martin had sufficient time to place the notes on his car, the police concluded.
Police closed the case. Martin didn’t come clean, but won’t be pursuing the investigation anymore. Because that’s totally what an innocent victim does when police blame him for an offense committed by someone else.
As for the university, the police’s conclusion apparently wasn’t nearly as appealing for virtue-signaling purposes as the original claim was, because it went from long-winded declarations of outrage to invoking privacy laws as a justification to stop talking. Seems legit.
This story echoes another hoax that police recently unraveled in Oregon, where failed county commissioner candidate Jonathan Lopez did admit to writing racist letters to himself… after the cops figured out he did it.
Racism will no more fully disappear from America than any other sin the human heart is capable of, simply because evil is a constant of human nature, which cannot be perfected in the physical world. But the fact that so many people so badly want to be perceived as victims of racism — because it’s a ticket to instant sympathy from politicians, media, and schools — is proof positive of two things: society is overwhelmingly anti-racist, and the people who scream the loudest about “systemic racism” know it.
