Albany Students Lie About Attack

According to CNN, three University of New York at Albany students, who claim to be hate crime victims are accused of fabricating the attack. Charges against them include assault and falsely reporting an accident. This occurred a few weeks after the university held a rally in support of the black students, who claimed to be attacked by a group of white men and women. Days after the bus confrontation happened, university president Robert J. Jones in a letter said that he is "deeply concerned, saddened, and angry about the incident." After a three-week investigation, university police found the three women assaulted another passenger and falsely reported the alleged crime. According to the university police chief Frank Wiley said "those three individuals were not the victims, they are the perpetrators." Evidence was gathered from the other bus passengers that also included interviews from them and video footage from the many security cameras and passengers. According to a police statement, "no male struck the three women, the evidence indicates they were the aggressors and continued to assault the victim despite the attempt from the passengers to stop them."

-Laura Midkiff