All people should never forget this HOAX he played, yet they still let him lead them around by the nose
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Sharpton Can’t Admit Tawana Brawley Hoax
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BY:
Washington Free Beacon Staff
October 8, 2013 8:18 am
Rev. Al Sharpton would not admit the Tawana Brawley rape case he drove to national prominence
was a hoax on
Morning Joe Tuesday, saying he had no regrets getting involved and would respond the same way if a woman today made similar claims.
Brawley claimed she was kidnapped and gang-raped by white men, including a police officer and local prosecutor, in 1987. The story became a national sensation and was a career-maker for Sharpton, who was largely unknown at the time.
But after a long investigation revealed Brawley’s claims to be false, it was dropped. Brawley finally began making defamation payments in August for her false accusations in the case, but Sharpton would still admit no fault Tuesday for his controversial involvement.
“We have the facts and the evidence that an assistant district attorney and a state trooper did this,” Sharpton said at the time,
according to the New York Times:
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.”
Tuesday, as he was promoting his new book, Sharpton did not back off.
“If I was called today by a young lady who made those claims, I would respond the same way,” Sharpton said.
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