This will be one of those times that her young age will be used to justify her actions - the lack of complete mental development. Of course, she can still make her own adult decisions when it comes to abortion and gender identity because she is old enough to decide those things since her mind is fully developed to do so.Charge her with a hate crime, and send her up for 50 years in prison.
Bringing attention to an issue that affects us all...I'll bet the excusers say she was just doing a historical reenactment for Black History Month.
A controversy involving a racial slur allegedly being directed at a Black college athlete captured the attention of the national media - at least until her claim faced further scrutiny. Duke University volleyball player Rachel Richardson went viral after she claimed that a fan from Brigham Young University (BYU) hurled the n-word at her "throughout the entirety of the match" between the two schools on August 26.
Except her claim was never corroborated. In fact, it was discredited.
BYU Police Lt. George Besendorfer told the Salt Lake Tribune that his department reviewed surveillance camera footage of the alleged racist fan from the game, telling the paper, "When we watched the video, we did not observe that behavior from him." Besendorfer added that no one from the student section from the crowd has come forward to back up Richardson's claim.
Richardson was prominently featured on ABC's "Good Morning America" and was interviewed about what she claimed to have experienced during its broadcast on August 30.
ABC News correspondent Janai Norman, who spoke with the 19-year-old sophomore, said she was "really impressed" with "how she is handling all of this."
Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell grilled BYU athletic director Tom Holmoe for not taking enough swift action against to stop the "racist slurs and threats" immediately.
Weekend anchor Jim Acosta invited on former NAACP president Cornell William Brooks, who spent the interview lambasting BYU's handling of the alleged incident.
"New Day" co-host Brianna Keilar sat down with the student's father, Marvin Richardson, who gave interviews with numerous outlets including ABC News.
CNN's website additionally had six individual links on its website about the story, some recapping its on-air coverage, nothing about the investigation's findings.
The media never learns their lesson with these accusations. A gymnasium full of people, yet only this girl heard racial slurs. Good thing she didn't pay to get herself beat up or noosed.
As Warner Wolf would say, "Let's go to the videotape".
And the national media swoons