OPINION: The warning signs were all there
A black school board member and government employee allegedly planted the noose on her own desk, law enforcement announced recently. The two-month investigation, which included the FBI, has ended with charges against the suspected hoaxer.
However, while the news may come as a surprise to others, regular readers of The College Fix will notice the suspected hoax by LaTarsha Brown, an Allentown School Board member, had red flags from the very beginning. Brown is also a “social justice ambassador” for the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission.
The claims by Brown (pictured) in January first piqued my curiosity because it did follow a pattern – the hoaxer had been complaining about issues at work. On a regular basis, campus hate crime hoaxes also involve previously aggrieved students.
Brown “has lodged complaints about racism and workplace discrimination with the city’s Human Resources Department and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,” LehighValleyNews.com reported on Jan. 10, when the allegations were first reported.
The first hate crime hoax I covered for The Fix, as a student in 2014, involved the ally of a fake victim using the alleged incident to push for left-wing demands at the University of Chicago.
Similarly, a black female student at Wayne State University claimed her dorm door was egged because she “was a black person living in their space.” Campus police concluded she likely staged the attack, as first reported by The Fix.
She also initially refused DNA testing and stopped answering questions from police – another pattern for campus hate crime hoaxes, such as when a black high school student in Minnesota faked the racist messages sent to herself.
We are getting closer to the Allentown noose incident being exposed as a hoax.
The complainant has now entered the ‘stop talking to the police’ phase.https://t.co/tkZEHCeWY7
— Matt Lamb (@MattLamb22) January 29, 2025
On January 29, I wrote on X: “We are getting closer to the Allentown noose incident being exposed as a hoax. The complainant has now entered the ‘stop talking to the police’ phase.”
Brown “declined to provide a voluntary DNA sample Jan. 14 during an interview with an FBI agent,” LehighValleyNews.com reported. As a result, law enforcement had to get a warrant for her DNA. This ultimately led to the conclusion she likely faked the hate crime.
In a just world, she will get punished for lying, wasting police resources, and denigrating her peers as racists who would leave a noose.
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IMAGE CAPTION AND CREDIT: Allentown employee LaTarsha Brown; Allentown School District
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