Victim in Iowa City racial assault found to be lying to police
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There were far too many holes in his story from the start
He should be charged with both assault and filing a false police report. Disgusting.
Wow, the apology letter from the family actually makes me feel a little bad for the parents of this kid.
These people who report these things hoping to trap someone else are really doing assault victims no favors. The more this kind of think keeps happening, the more we're going to be skeptical of victims who report assaults.
These people who report these things hoping to trap someone else are really doing assault victims no favors. The more this kind of think keeps happening, the more we're going to be skeptical of victims who report assaults.
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I agree, there should be more punishment for this sort of thing.
Any student that used the "#explainiowa" hashtag should be expelled for being a moron
I should have posted this when it came out....good stuff
Keith-reed@uiowa.edu
Much has happened this past week, and I can foresee more on the docket for the next week or so. Marcus Owens, a black University of Iowa student, was jumped in an alley near campus after allegedly being called a racial epithet. This happened over the weekend, and waking up to this news is startling. There was no warning from the university about this incident — social media was the delivery method of this news.
University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld is the problem. Harreld has issues with listening to the needs and wants of the student body as well as teachers. There have been many protests and forums held in opposition to him. He has been under fire consistently since he became the president. Many people in the community and fellow students have staged boycotts and public forums to voice their grievances. As this is being written, the news outlet on campus is swelling with this news, but at what cost?
The UI is quick to report sexual assaults and suspected bomb threats, but it responded too slowly for this incident, which is unacceptable. I can agree with the fact that Hawk Alerts, as they are called, have been useful to me. These email notifications mostly include notice of sexual assaults and robberies that happen on and off campus. In many of these emails, the race of the suspected perpetrators is clearly identified, and the victim’s name is not disclosed.
The crime alert I received Wednesday at noon was inappropriately similar. The language included sterile terms, reading, “According to the victim, he was then struck several more times by multiple subjects while being called racial slurs.” The lack specificity in the email is the problem. UI officials are quick to say in a Hawk Alert that a suspect is black, but when a black man is the victim of a hate crime, they remove his race from the conversation. Neglecting to state the race of the victim is essentially operating under the pretense of not seeing color as an issue anymore. Leaving the race out in this instance is a hate crime because of the mental distress it has caused. Naming the race of the victim is necessary in this case because it is allegedly the reason he was attacked.
The black community needs to know that we need to be on alert. On umerous campuses — it is a shame — this incident has happened many times. This, too, is a racially charged campus. The university can boast diversity and recruit out-of-state students all it wants, but the reality is that we need to know, understand, and live actual diversity on campus. The university can “embrace diversity” and feature many races on the admissions brochures to be in line with that concept. We can stop posing for those photos, stop playing in your sports games, stop being the tokens that the university loves so much. The university needs to immediately find a solution to this unrest. Believe it or not, we have power and strength even though that is quite contrary to the way that the university and the racist public think.
On campus, it has become a necessity to acknowledge fellow black people when you see them, to let them know we’re in this together. It isn’t always easy — I have found myself to be the only minority in numerous classes. This has raised an essential question that has to be explored on every campus. Can the administration, in good conscience, provide a safe environment for these minorities? We need to change the taboo surrounding race on the UI campus, because we all know minorities are here. We have become pawns in a system that clearly cares about percentages than actual life cost. Your move Iowa, now it is time for you to explain this. #ExplainIowa.http://daily-iowan.com/2016/05/05/reed-explainiowa/
Keith-reed@uiowa.edu
Much has happened this past week, and I can foresee more on the docket for the next week or so. Marcus Owens, a black University of Iowa student, was jumped in an alley near campus after allegedly being called a racial epithet. This happened over the weekend, and waking up to this news is startling. There was no warning from the university about this incident — social media was the delivery method of this news.
University of Iowa President Bruce Harreld is the problem. Harreld has issues with listening to the needs and wants of the student body as well as teachers. There have been many protests and forums held in opposition to him. He has been under fire consistently since he became the president. Many people in the community and fellow students have staged boycotts and public forums to voice their grievances. As this is being written, the news outlet on campus is swelling with this news, but at what cost?
The UI is quick to report sexual assaults and suspected bomb threats, but it responded too slowly for this incident, which is unacceptable. I can agree with the fact that Hawk Alerts, as they are called, have been useful to me. These email notifications mostly include notice of sexual assaults and robberies that happen on and off campus. In many of these emails, the race of the suspected perpetrators is clearly identified, and the victim’s name is not disclosed.
The crime alert I received Wednesday at noon was inappropriately similar. The language included sterile terms, reading, “According to the victim, he was then struck several more times by multiple subjects while being called racial slurs.” The lack specificity in the email is the problem. UI officials are quick to say in a Hawk Alert that a suspect is black, but when a black man is the victim of a hate crime, they remove his race from the conversation. Neglecting to state the race of the victim is essentially operating under the pretense of not seeing color as an issue anymore. Leaving the race out in this instance is a hate crime because of the mental distress it has caused. Naming the race of the victim is necessary in this case because it is allegedly the reason he was attacked.
The black community needs to know that we need to be on alert. On umerous campuses — it is a shame — this incident has happened many times. This, too, is a racially charged campus. The university can boast diversity and recruit out-of-state students all it wants, but the reality is that we need to know, understand, and live actual diversity on campus. The university can “embrace diversity” and feature many races on the admissions brochures to be in line with that concept. We can stop posing for those photos, stop playing in your sports games, stop being the tokens that the university loves so much. The university needs to immediately find a solution to this unrest. Believe it or not, we have power and strength even though that is quite contrary to the way that the university and the racist public think.
On campus, it has become a necessity to acknowledge fellow black people when you see them, to let them know we’re in this together. It isn’t always easy — I have found myself to be the only minority in numerous classes. This has raised an essential question that has to be explored on every campus. Can the administration, in good conscience, provide a safe environment for these minorities? We need to change the taboo surrounding race on the UI campus, because we all know minorities are here. We have become pawns in a system that clearly cares about percentages than actual life cost. Your move Iowa, now it is time for you to explain this. #ExplainIowa.http://daily-iowan.com/2016/05/05/reed-explainiowa/
This is what race baiting gets you lefties...more knee jerk over reactions to anything that might possibly be race related... facts be damned.
I am certain this individual has quickly printed a retraction and apologized for this piece. I am sure it will be linked soon.
Know weigh!! I totally thought this was legit from the very start...NOT!
Now I would like to see as much breathless and emotional reporting of this story as we saw 2 weeks ago when it first surfaced...including including Chicago.
Now I would like to see as much breathless and emotional reporting of this story as we saw 2 weeks ago when it first surfaced...including including Chicago.
I thought the letter from his parents was a pretty classy. You seldom see people publicly accepting responsibility like this anymore.....
It would be much classier to not go the hate crime angle from the start and go public with it.
Facts really don't matter to them. The faux anger and outrage accomplished exactly what they wanted it to.
Needs to be tough consequences for this kind of lying to the public!
Did it? What did they want to accomplish and what did they?
Seems like egg on face to me..
What would you have the parents do? Not believe their son?
You can't sit there and demand more accept personal responsibility from the population as a whole and then throw it in someone's face when they actually accept personal responsibility for what had happened. It's BS.
These parents acted no different than most other parents when faced with the same situation. The only difference is that 99% of those parents that acted the same way would not have written an apology letter.
In a time when racial tension is at it's highest in 50 years, these parents provide a glimmer of hope. They should be applauded, not poo pooed on by people like you.
Could they have responded different initially? Of course, but hind sight is always 20/20. It's obvious that they know that and regret their actions.
JFC. Just another leftist hack job.
Starts out with "its Herald's fault" simply so they can continue with their leftist agenda.
Disgusting.
#ExpalinIowa was all over social media. The Dean and President of the University met with the kid and his family. That was reported by every media outlet within earshot. They got their 15 minutes of Iowa being a racist school. The fact that it didn't actually happen doesn't really matter to anyone now nor will it change most peoples minds on the issue.
I see, so lefties just want to trash universities (which the right claim is just a liberal breeding ground) and not actually accomplish anything other than that?
#ExpalinIowa was all over social media. The Dean and President of the University met with the kid and his family. That was reported by every media outlet within earshot. They got their 15 minutes of Iowa being a racist school. The fact that it didn't actually happen doesn't really matter to anyone now nor will it change most peoples minds on the issue.
Their son didn't even know what happened. They just admitted as such. I know what happens downtown IC. I've seen plenty of scuffles and been involved in a couple. My roommate got jumped on his way home one night. There was one main cause in all of those instances: booze. I can demand whatever I want. This is the internet. You can believe your son without running to the media and demanding meetings with the University (who had nothing to do with any of it). If it was a crime work with the cops to get justice. If they end up failing you or they actually do find that it was a hate crime then go the public route.
Where did they accept responsibility for being uninformed attention whores to the Chicago media?
You're one of those conservatives who gives conservatism a bad name. You're not the slightest bit reasonable or rational. You're no different than the regressive liberals.
Most reasonable people understand that writing an apology letter is accepting responsibility.
No, most reasonable people would expect one to use an apology letter to note the things that one is sorry or regretful for. Where one doesn't indicate sorrow or regret for an act, reasonable people assume that the person is not sorry or regretful for it.
Are you a child? Or are you just that simple?
The entire world knows what their actions caused. There was no need to note what they were apologizing for.
Maybe you do, but I do not need them to write a list of things they are apologizing for. I already know and understand what they did.
It's not reasonable or rational to let the police do their job before you run with the media's hate crime narrative?
The new America, where you are guilty until proven innocent and anything else is irrational...
They didn't believe the police were doing their job!!! That was the entire reason they went to the media!
Now that it came out that the authorities were actually doing their job, they apologized; which is more than most people would have done.
They accepted responsibility for their actions and apologized. People like you are always crying about not accepting personal responsibility! When someone finally does, you crap all over it. It's pathetic.
It takes more than a day or two to complete a police investigation. Come one even you don't really believe that do you? This has been my stance since the beginning. I'm supposed to change my stance just because they made an apology?
The more the merrier!
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