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On 03 Mar 2022, Wi1liam T <weakamerica@gmail.com> posted some news:svriki$233ck$16@news.freedyn.de:

Nobody had to rape E. Jean Carroll. She looks like a man. She had to
drop her pants and spread her legs with a bag over her head to get
laid.

The news reports at the time, in the late 1980s, were horrific. Tawana
Brawley, a 15-year-old African-American girl from the New York City
area, was said to have been abducted and repeatedly raped by six white
men. She was found with “KKK” written across her chest, a racial epithet
on her stomach and her hair smeared with feces. She was so traumatized, according to reports, that at the hospital she answered yes-or-no
questions by blinking her eyes. Making the crime even more vile, if that
were possible, she and her lawyers later claimed that two of the rapists
were law enforcement officials.

Ms. Brawley’s spokesman was the Rev. Al Sharpton — a dapper television personality and political commentator these days, but a fiery street
activist back then. At a news conference, he named suspects.

“We have the facts and the evidence that an assistant district attorney
and a state trooper did this,” Mr. Sharpton said. He called Gov. Mario
M. Cuomo a racist and warned that powerful state officials were
complicit. When asked whether Ms. Brawley would speak with the state
attorney general, Robert Abrams, Mr. Sharpton said that would be like
asking someone in a concentration camp to talk to Hitler.

But, as the meticulously researched Retro Report points out this week,
it was all a hoax. After seven months, 6,000 pages of testimony and 180 witnesses, a grand jury found Ms. Brawley’s story to be a lie. Neither
the police officer nor the district attorney accused by Ms. Brawley and
Mr. Sharpton had been involved in any way, the report concluded.

A Sharpton associate told the news media at the time that Ms. Brawley’s lawyers, C. Vernon Mason and Alton H. Maddox Jr., and Mr. Sharpton were
“frauds from the beginning.”

And about six months after the hoax, Ms. Brawley’s former boyfriend told Newsday that she had invented the allegations, apparently to avoid a
beating by her mother’s boyfriend after running away from home for four
days.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/03/booming/revisiting-the-tawana-brawley- rape-scandal.html

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