Cyrstal Mangum (pictured), the stripper who smeared Duke lacrosse players in 2006 and last week was arrested for stabbing her boyfriend, will likely be tried for murder. The boyfriend, according to news reports, died yesterday.
According to the Durham Herald Sun, the police chief, Jose Lopez, announced the death and said charges will be filed.
Mangum already was in jail under a $300,000 secured bond charged with assault with a deadly weapon with intent to kill inflicting serious injury.
"More than likely, we will be upgrading the charge to murder," Lopez said.
The Duke Lacrosse Scandal
Though Mangum has quite a criminal record, she is more famous for smearing three white lacrosse players for Duke University than she is for petty crime.
In 2006, Mangum attended a party at the house of the team’s co-captains, and there, she told police, the white boys raped and assaulted her. Unsurprisingly, because Mangum is black and the Duke boys are white, the mainstream media focussed on the racial aspects of the story and smeared the players from Portland east to Portland west. A group of the school’s leftist professoriat declared the players guilty. Duke canceled its lacrosse season. A national conversation on white racism and privilege began.
Problem was, like Tawana Brawley, Mangum lied. She was neither raped nor assaulted. North Carolina’s attorney general dropped the charges, and the prosecutor, Mike Nifong, was disbarred and spent a day in jail. It was, the Attorney General said, a "tragic rush to accuse."
That’s what the Duke players thought. They sued prosecutors and police. Last week, a federal judge ruled that the lawsuit can proceed.
Crime Story
So Mangum is not only a liar but also a malignant criminal with a history of violence and false accusations. She tried peddling a gang rape story in 1996, Nicholas Stix reported at VDare.com.
Her last brush with the law before stabbing her boyfriend was setting his clothes on fire in front of her child in February of last year. She was tried for that crime in December, but sentenced to time served.
According to the Raleigh News and Observer:
In February 2010, police accused Mangum of slashing the vehicle tires of her boyfriend Milton Walker, smashing his windshield with a vacuum cleaner and setting fire to a pile of his clothes in a bathtub while the police and her three children were in her apartment.
Mangum was convicted of child abuse, vandalism and resisting an officer.
The felony arson charge against Mangum was dismissed earlier this year.
She had threatened to stab the boyfriend, the Durham Herald-Sun reports.
Apparently, she carried out the threat.
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