New York police arrested and charged a 19-year-old woman with making a false statement after she alleged she was confronted by Trump-loving teens and later found her tire slashed.
Adowa Lewis told Nassau County police she was the victim of a hate crime around 11:15 p.m. on September 1, as she drove down Jackson Street in Baldwin, New York, where she alleged four teens shouted “Trump 2016!” and told her she didn’t belong, PIX11 reports.
“She further claimed she parked her car in front of her house and when she woke up, she found a slashed tire and a note on her car that stated ‘Go Home,’” according to a police news release.
Police conducted an “extensive investigation” only to determine that Lewis is a liar and the alleged altercation never occurred. Police said she also admitted to writing the note herself, though her motivation remains unclear, WCVB reports.
Lewis was arrested, charged with making a false statement, and released on an appearance ticket, police told the Daily Mail on Saturday.
She’s expected to appear in court to face the charge on September 24.
Lewis joins a long list of accusers who alleged racist antics from Trump supporters that were later revealed to be lies.
The attacks started before Trump won the election, in April 2016, when a black student at Kean University in Elizabeth, N.J. created a fake Twitter account to threaten black students with messages promising to “shoot every black woman and male I see,” EAGnews reports.
Days later, black students were busted writing “white power” in a classroom at Salisbury University, with similar incidents since Trump took office.
In February 2017, a Muslim student in Wisconsin faced criminal charges for a hate crime hoax after he spray-painted his own dorm room with racist words. In April 2017, University of Southern California’s Department of Public Safety revealed an alleged ‘No Black People Allowed’ sign on campus was also a hoax designed to smear Trump supporters as racist.
There was also a fabricated racist note at St. Olaf College, and alleged attacks on Muslims at several U.S. colleges that turned out to be bogus.
Breitbart detailed other incidents, as well:
In November 2016, a black man in Massachusetts admitted that he made up a story about two white men threatening to lynch him while saying the U.S. is “Trump country,” and an 18-year-old Muslim woman in Louisiana told police she lied when she claimed Trump supporters removed her hijab and called her names.
Police charged the 18-year-old with filing a false police report.
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