Two Montclair State University students who had claimed to be the targets of threatening racist graffiti written on a dorm room door last week were arrested and charged with making false reports to law enforcement.
The University issued the following press release this evening:
On February 7, 2012, the Montclair State University Police Department received a complaint that racist graffiti containing threats of violence was placed upon the door of two African American female students residing on campus. The report was investigated by University Police as a bias incident and, with the cooperation and assistance of the University community, the University’s law enforcement officials determined there was sufficient probable cause to arrest these two female students who were the source of the complaint as responsible for the graffiti.
Accordingly, Olivia McCrae, 19 years old of Newark, and Tanasia Linton, also 19 years old of Newark, were arrested today, Tuesday, February 14, 2012, by University Police and charged with Disorderly Conduct, False Reports to Law Enforcement, and Criminal Mischief. The charges will be prosecuted in the Superior Court of New Jersey by the Passaic County Prosecutor.
So I guess the MSU “Community” is okay after all.
No need for snipers. No need for “programs.” No need for “looking inward at ourselves.”
They lied.
And we freaked out assuming the worst. So even though I was on the side of “better to be safe…” The truth is: maybe the first response should include questions to those making the claim.
Shocked! I’m Shocked!
And may I assume that the two ladies mentioned will be getting the bill for all the extra LEO’s called out?
I can’t wait to hear cathar’s take on this one !
I’m expecting a post containing the words “Tawana Brawley”. 3,2,1…..
Just a reminder; this has nothing to do with the anti-gay threats that have been leveled at MSU’s LGBT community.
Remember when Seton Hall was up in arms about the security on campus due to a female reporting that she was sexually assaulting while walking in the parking lot, and that it turned out that she lied? Don’t you love college?
Let this be a lesson, police! Next time there are threats, just take a pass. It’ll probably be nothing. Just ask Baristanet commentators!
No, nick.
Next time, unfortunately, they should do two things: investigate the allegation, but be open to all eventualities.
It’s not the police investigating the threats that’s the problem, it’s the special interest groups compiled of self-righteous students that are the problem.
Next time, unfortunately, they should do two things: investigate the allegation, but be open to all eventualities.
That seems to be what they did here, prof. Something happened, the police investigated, and now some girls got arrested. What happened that you didn’t want to happen? Susan Cole sending an email telling students not write hateful words on each other’s doors?
it’s the special interest groups compiled of self-righteous students that are the problem
Yes, because a group of self-righteous students (are there any other kind?) putting together some rally against bias crimes is really the end of the g-damn world, isn’t it?
Let this be a lesson, police! Next time there are threats, just take a pass. It’ll probably be nothing. Just ask Baristanet commentators!
This is funny. But someone called it last week on the victims… was it ROC? I hope it wasn’t deadeye–he’ll be insufferable.
boonanas- “It’s not the police investigating the threats that’s the problem, it’s the special interest groups compiled of self-righteous students that are the problem.”
They use the attention because they aren’t innovative or creative enough to make new discoveries, instead they attract attention to their sexuality because their Ego, and Super Ego have been mass produced into a raw demonstration of the I.D. which is to say perfect consumers, if not parasitic. Race and Sexuality aside these people attend class with a group of people who associate themselves with unrestrained passion for special interests, there is nothing conservative about sexually explicit demonstration. They need to move past being reactionary to the fact that they didn’t receive a high mark on the I.Q. test, or that winning a spelling bee can be an evolutionary process if not successful at once. Instead of polluting the psyche of the public with illegible vernacular and defacing public property, the quality of which needn’t be improved except for the occasional varnish. Needless to say the sad narrative of “the victim” and “the authoritarian” will inevitably repeat itself with a degree of contempt and scathing rapport among individuals familiar with the consistency of their intellectual peer group. An awful place for a student wanting to remain local and not willing to venture into an institution of higher I.Q. megalomaniacs, grandchildren, and test takers. But at least at the state schools people aren’t a trumped up brand commodity they’re just sexual objects on display and in need of a middle class salary.
Posting in your usual pitiful state, eh, good ol’ Spiro T? You really think others here anxiously await your deadening avuncularity? Have you tried writing a self-help book? Then you could read it aloud to yourself.
But yes, as it happens, I did sort of this predict this one, didn’t I? (Only the good prof and ROC evinced simialr skepticism.) I don’t at all mind hate saying, hey, I told you suckers so. So here goes: I told you so. Nyah nyah nyah.
And then I was of course vilified by the frothingly outraged for even the mere suggestion that these mingy little incidents were, at the very least, a sort of inside job. So much for the need for those snipers. Sadly, all the good little “progressives” in this site harrumphed in agonizingly phlegm-filled ways about racism and the need for caution.
As for Tawana Brawley, the matter was far worse because in the process she and her sorry crew of supporters attempted to destroy the reputations of both law enforcers and neighbors (dabbling casually in anti-Catholicism and anti-Semitism along the way, didst thee forget that part, Spiro T?). Oh well, Barawley as a result at least got to star in a rap video or 2 and had 7.5 minutes of fame.
I can only assume that Reverend Sharpton (though what savior and deity he serves faithfully is beyond me) didn’t make it over to Montclair State to rail because of the press of other business. And now he has a celebrity funeral here in Jersey at which to appear concerned and furrow his fat brow. Regardless, the man remains a total rotter. And these “incidents” at Montclair State were shamefully hyped by the Baristas and even more shamefully overrated by way too many posters here. That is the sole lesson. Oh, and snipers were a wild overreaction.
Again, I told you all this in my inimitable fashion. Nyah nyah nyah. Now let’s move on to something far more important, such as the upcoming NCAA hoops tournament.
Whoa !! Put that in the Museum of the Hard to Believe…
as Herbie called it before he was once again attacked.
“Hummmmmmm………..I remember a few years ago a Columbia professor…… not sayin, just sayin” (last week)
…. ahh Herbie your too good, just too darn good.
Let’s hope Ms. McCrae and Ms. Linton spend some time in the clink until they are able to reimburse the tax payers for their selfish agenda driven stunt.
I’d also like to commend the great Cathar and RoC and a few other that saw through this bs. And those of you with your usual predictable knee jerk reaction shouldn’t be so quick to judge. heh,heh.
And to HCkid who above feebly attempts to remind that the anti-gay graffiti seen on Montclair State’s campus has not been linked to the latter two incidents of “racism” (well, not yet), overreaction is still overreaction.
Here’s a conundrum: what if they held a “day of unity” (which even according to sob-sister type reports on local TV news outlets said attracted barely more than 100) amd nobody came until there was a real reason to express such concerns? Better, what if they waited just a bit in the first doggone place? For the last week or two, Montclair State has seemed an integral part of Baristaville. A place where hysterical reactions are hardly ever unknown or even, unfortunately, uncommon.
(Perhaps, however, as an example of how some good can always come even from such cock-ups, I can refer to Spiro T for a while as “Spiro T Tawana.”)
Last post here: I’d suspend these two women, if indeed they’re guilty, for the rest of the semester. Then quietly let them back in the fall with the expectation they’ve learned their lessons, since this matter (unlike with the charming Ms. Brawley and her loudmouthed “backers”) has hot yet siraled hopelessly out of control.
Of course, had this been a Caucasian nutjob who’d actually been caught redhanded posting such racist nonsense, there’d be the inevitable calls here for his public hanging. That also should be noted, that the hapless frothing is seemingly never-ending on this site.
Well, then, kudos to cathar, ROC and the prof. Now would you please tell me where to invest my 401(k)? If you do half as well as that, I’d be happy to buy you all a round at Obals over skittles.
Sniper scopes, walleroo. Put it all in sniper scope stock.
plastics
deadeye, i apologize.
Alas, cathar, I was wrong. I thought you’d post once about Tawana Brawley in response to this news. As it turns out, you did so at 7:49, 8;38 and again at 8:43!
You even threw in Reverend Al for good measure.
(Had you not brought Ms. Brawley up so many times before on so many threads I would have never predicted your predictability )
Sniper scopes, gotcha. When is the IPO?
I called my broker. I’m now leveraged to the hilt, ROC — 40 to 1, just like Jon Corzine.
Can we please have a moratorium on apologies to deadeye? We should keep it to no more than one a week.
False flag operations – been around since the dawn of time. Nothing new.
Except …. Note what our resident anti-intellectual, the philosophic reincarnation of WNEW’s Alan Burke, wrote:
“You really think others here anxiously await your deadening avuncularity?”
ROTFLMAO.
Some do Bill
Oh, Spiro T-for-Tawana, I just so love it when you’re being apologetic.
See, I give you what you asked for and it still pains you to acknowledge it…
And Courson, dear flexible Courson, aren’t yuou marooned somewhere diown in the Carolinas? So far away that your tacit agreement with everyone else as bored with your own attempts at avuncularity (you and Spiro T-for-Tawana together are about one-tenth the bore Russell Baker is/was) was, I assumed, that you wouldn’t post here again since there is opnoly so much dust which can fly out of your mouth.
Clearly I was wrong. But your brain still seems to be the equivalent of a decades-old dust bunny.
These young ladies deserve expulsion from MSU. And they should not be allowed to attend any NJ state school or use federal/state funding to attend any school. Zero tolerance on a sick prank.
Jesus cathar, are you losing your sight ? (Those nuns were right, you know, when they warned you of the consequences of your “pastime”).
Is dementia setting in?
Are you adding Scotch to your cornflakes?
How else to account for such a dog’s breakfast of a post?
“opnoly”? “yuou”?
I mean, I’m quite used to posts from you which are tedious, poorly constructed, and laughably pedantic. I’m even used to your love affair with the word “avuncular” in all its forms.
But please, your treacle is hard enough to comprehend without adding this new ham-fisted technique to the mix.
Buck up, boy! You’ve standards to uphold and readers to bore!
Since I chastised Deadeye for blaming the victim, the apology is deserved.
cathar, I appreciate your valiant attempt to guess what the “T” stands for, however,
Spiro “Tawana” Quayle would be incorrect, since,
as you could imagine,
I was named in honor of my then living cousin,
Spiro “Theodore” Agnew, Nixon’s loyal vice president, friend of Frank Sinatra, and well known Baltimorian.
The Quayle part is the family name shared with my other cousin James Danforth Quayle, the Hoosier, incorrect speller of “potato”, and St. Ronald of Reagan’s loyal vice president.
But as cro fairly points out, J. Danforth has some competition from you these days in the spelling department. My sense is that your native perfectionism will enable you to overcome this temporary impairment. I hope it doesn’t, however, since cro had me rolling in the aisle with his post.
No one has commented on the typo “doom” room?
“No one has commented on the typo “doom” room?”
Good eye, g07003! Thanks.
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LOL, cmaynard. I got a good laugh over that!
Grab your sheets and hoods, everyone.
We’re meeting over at libertarian’s house.
I’ve been a bit mystified by the chest thumping by Prof, ROC, Cathar and Herb on this thread…maybe I didn’t read the original thread carefully enough. But it does sort of read like a gang of male chimps rushing, hooting, retreating slightly, then rushing back. Woo woo woo! Toldjaso!
But what’s your point?