An impertinent question: If the United States of America is “systemically racist,” if “white supremacy” is a growing menace, if the white man just doesn’t understand how secretly racist he is, why must the purported victims of these intolerable justices manufacture hoaxes?
To ask the question is to answer it, as they say, and a young black man in Buffalo, New York, showed why.
The prosecutor in Erie County has indicted the “hate-crime victim” for felony insurance fraud because he vandalized his car with racist, “homophobic,” and, of course, pro-Trump graffiti.
Apparently, Ku Klux Klanners were not to blame. Nor were MAGA-hatted Trump supporters. Not even Proud Boys.
Bubba Wallace and Jussie Smollett, meet Clifton Eutsey, another failed hate hoaxer.
But the misdemeanors with which Eutsey is charged are the least of his problem. Police nailed him on a gun charge after he staged the hate-crime hoax.
The Hoax
As the Buffalo News reported of the “hate crime” on October 15, Eutsey “reported to police that someone broke the windshield of his vehicle, poured sugar in his gas tank and spray painted the vehicle with messages including ‘[Expletive] Blacks Matter,’ ‘Trump 4 President,’ swastikas and a homophobic slur.”
Worst thing is, the car was a BMW X5, a $60,000 vehicle when purchased new. Eutsey’s was a 2004 likely worth $6,000-$10,000, condition depending.
Last week, prosecutors charged Eutsey with one felony and three misdemeanors for manufacturing the hoax, NBC affiliate WGRZ reported:
• Insurance Fraud in the Third Degree, a Class “D” felony
• Offering a False Instrument for Filing in the Second Degree, a Class “A” misdemeanor
• Falsifying Business Records in the Second Degree, a Class “A” misdemeanor
• Falsely Reporting an Incident in the Third Degree, a Class “A” misdemeanor
Eutsey surrendered yesterday. Cops released him on his own recognizance until his return to court in January.
He faces seven years in the slammer for the hoax, yet stupidly wrecking his car might be the least of his problems, the station reported. Cops charged him with other felonies connected to an unrelated crime less than 10 days later.
On October 24, police stopped Eutsey and found him driving without license, but with “two loaded, illegal firearms on his person, according to investigators.”
Cops charged him with “two counts of Criminal Possession of a Weapon in the Second Degree, Class ‘C’ violent felonies,” along with “vehicle and traffic law violations for driving without a license and leaving a motor vehicle unattended.”
Other Hoaxes
Why Eutsey wrecked his car and blamed media reports didn’t say, just as they didn’t explain why NASCAR’s only black driver, Bubba Wallace, helped previously perpetrate a hate hoax that sent the country into the usual hysterics.
A noose, we were told, was found in Wallace’s garage at Talladega SuperSpeedway.
The FBI detailed 15 agents to probe the terrifying reminder of lynchings. Result: It was a garage-door pull, not a noose.
Homosexual actor Jussie Smollett tried to pull a more elaborate hoax when he claimed two white men attacked him on January 29, 2019, as he returned from a munchies run in downtown Chicago at 2 a.m.
The tale was as implausible as it was elaborate, but that didn’t stop yet another needless national moral panic.
Cops quickly learned that Smollett staged the attack, but he escaped justice when prosecutors dismissed 16 felony charges.
In February, a special prosecutor indicted Smollet on six felony counts of disorderly conduct.
In October, after an “exhaustive probe,” federal and state authorities stopped wasting time on a biracial woman’s false claim. A group of night-riding, racist white boys, she falsely claimed, attacked her in her car while stopped at a red light in Madison, Wisconsin.
Authorities did not charge the woman.
